From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 17:40:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33FE16A4AB for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4304A43E66 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:35:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so385978ana for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:36:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oVspWJh/+SN0m9axp3RbLR8SCBeqHT5cetiGQZcAFzcUDLwqGDB/YnQ2A4d5e79FZnzHpnSDigVmZZISNErcpIVkI3gpwrws2Yg7Dw65Ri64LM6yP1zRg+ZbSrgkE/aDYVy9IPfK8ClGk6LajWkcb1zdL1D7Td1ZAkQze3loNUw= Received: by 10.100.167.7 with SMTP id p7mr694640ane.1165944993305; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:36:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.112.17 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:36:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a41acea0612120936q671d5b59g39100983f2adf9db@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:36:33 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Chris Buechler" In-Reply-To: <457EDD6B.20107@chrisbuechler.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <457EDD6B.20107@chrisbuechler.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-RC1 em(4) issue - freezes during CD boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:40:28 -0000 On 12/12/06, Chris Buechler wrote: > I'm attempting to install 6.2-RC1 on a box that ran 5.3, 5.4, 6.0, and > 6.1 for the past few years, but the 6.2-RC1 CD won't boot. After it > detects the em0 NIC, before it gets into sysinstall, it freezes solid. > I've let it sit there for over an hour. > > I know there has been some recent work on em(4), but it doesn't appear > all the issues are resolved. I'm not sure what I should try, what > information I could provide that might be useful, etc. I'd be more than > happy to help troubleshoot this, with some guidance on what I could do > to be helpful. UH, can't do anything if you don't give any information, saying its a 'box' and it has an 'em' is useless. We have installed RC1 on a number of systems without problem. When you give this kind of report think about it like you have to debug it yourself (which you do :). What is the system, pciconf, which will tell us what kind of em it is, how bout Beta 6.2 did IT build. Um, so can you pull the NIC out and then does it install... etc etc.. Cheers, Jack