Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:20:35 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sean_bruno@yahoo.com> To: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, yongari@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bce and "Warning: bootcode thinks driver is absent." Message-ID: <1374859235.2321.4.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20130717155531.GA52015@gta.com> References: <20130717155531.GA52015@gta.com>
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--=-OD/S2/Q3eHrAhKRV0hlR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 11:55 -0400, Larry Baird wrote: > Recently under amd64 and 9.1-STABLE I am seeing issues with the bce > driver. Message is "Warning: bootcode thinks driver is absent". After > this message, the box appears to be wedged. After rebooting, it got the > same message during fsck. So we installed 9.2 pre-release using a snapsh= ot > iso from 7/13/13. Shortly after boot we got the same message. We are no= w in > the process of installing 9.1 release to verify this is a driver issue an= d > not hardware flaking out. Anybody else seen this issue? >=20 > Thank you for your time, > Larry >=20 Hey, looks like we might be seeing similar things. I've been investigating the fact that FreeBSD appears to be smashing the mangement firmware because of the ipmi(4) code attempting to attach to the ACPI and ISA versions of the BMC. =20 Do you see attempts to attach to "ipmi1" and do you see various cases where you get a "NMI" of some kind on an ifconfig up of your network interfaces? Sean --=-OD/S2/Q3eHrAhKRV0hlR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJR8q/jAAoJEBkJRdwI6BaHOgIH/2MNeikj6iwWG1bFkIWQh7vd f45+/iFGzTZSOkL+4FArQlcIHOsinpmJchYDK8ZQ46E12klSN8+TZUViH3qaXUSU UkwuW4fa/EMo2+0rPAtSQCm6JIj+V3uTZgnKr4WCI7zrcxC8mFChLnxUWy6sw7pU RyU6FsWO+NP403si+MzJgDpg2FHXbzgl0oHdUDm7+0qCz03y8EqVfjpg/WlQ+vgs fngYpjjVRaDLNFwVVHO+DNn1ynp2b/KCywt48gVhdgUr6a+61TQwMh7/mzlB245R s0A8TihqSxtuaOiYJCBSo609EVYRXRxRB7XRtdnNyOeqkH7LeD9/pKhwUugrH6A= =rNIH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-OD/S2/Q3eHrAhKRV0hlR--
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