From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 20:38:33 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 6686316A492 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:38:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924C643C9E for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:37:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so97476ana for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:31 -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=EtS2Exb2dM9kduu6Mv0VsbRczOKy7FJ4Zvydh907OJQuO+n8oF3XCShcZ7QnbeqCt3eH2giU5+Ch8dKbdzvNlyXrejQClZ261hrieTMnk2ZVuoPUh0+mxevd5+FxO50yTOwBhw1pwXUQOCtJYxvhCROrbU8s6hSMsE6hAXoUhbM= Received: by 10.100.196.3 with SMTP id t3mr868121anf.1166042311621; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.112.17 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a41acea0612131238p34222362qde6ae51b18055744@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:31 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Chris Buechler" In-Reply-To: <457FA268.4020003@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> <2a41acea0612120936q671d5b59g39100983f2adf9db@mail.gmail.com> <457FA268.4020003@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: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:38:33 -0000 On 12/12/06, Chris Buechler wrote: > Jack Vogel wrote: > > 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. > > Yes, I understand that. I was after what info would be useful. You > gave me a few ideas, thanks. > > As for ACPI, the boot menu option recently changed to "enable ACPI", so > I'm assuming it must be disabled by default now. I tried with ACPI on > 6.2-RC1 and got the same result. > > I was able to narrow this down to something that has changed since > 6.2-BETA3. The BETA3 CD boots, installs, and works fine. The RC1 CD > won't boot, as I described in my first message. > > With the em card taken out, the 6.2-RC1 CD boots and installs just fine, > so it's definitely the em card. > > Hardware: > Dual AMD Athlon MP 2800+, Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard, 2 GB reg ECC RAM, > Adaptec 2110S PCI-X SCSI RAID, onboard xl(4) NIC, Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI > desktop adapter (ugh, I know it's not well suited for the box, but this > is a personal server and a cheap card that's adequate for my needs). > Drives: 3 x 18 GB SCSI in RAID 5, 1 x 73 GB SCSI on RAID controller but > a stand alone drive, and a 500 GB IDE drive on the onboard IDE controller. I need the PCI ID of that NIC, just to be sure that I can't reproduce this, but I doubt it, pciconf -l You can install without the card, reconfig the kernel so em isnt static in it, rebuild and install that kernel... THEN put the NIC back in and you should be able to boot. interesting question is what will happen when you load the em driver afterwords :) But that way you can do the pciconf with the thing plugged in but not hanging the system. Jack