Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:22:09 -0400 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> Cc: Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug Report: IBM x3650M4 (32GB, 2x4-core Xeon E5-2600, IBM ServeRaid M5110e): fails in install with NMI Message-ID: <20120828152209.GA2526@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20120828145015.GC64344@mikea.ath.cx> References: <20120827203817.GB44988@mikea.ath.cx> <201208280934.14161.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120828140507.GB64344@mikea.ath.cx> <503CD8B2.90306@wenks.ch> <20120828145015.GC64344@mikea.ath.cx>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:50:15AM -0500, Mike A wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Fabian Wenk wrote: > > Hello Mike > > > > On 28.08.2012 16:05, Mike A wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:34:14AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > >> > > >> Does setting 'hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=0' in the loader make a difference? > > > > > I will be happy to try that, but need guidance. This is an install from > > > CD (burned from FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso), and I don't know how to > > > insert a loader hint in that process. > > > > On the installed system create, or edit, the file > > /boot/loader.conf and add the line like this: > > > > hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="0" > > > > Then you need to reboot to test. > > I would happily do precisely that, if only I could get the system to > install. The failure occurs during boot of the install CDROM, before > bsdinstall ever gets started. > > I suspect that I need to do something like the following: > > Read in the entire boot CDROM to a directory tree using rsync or > equivalent; > > Edit the boot loader hints file to add that hint; > > Make an ISO out of the directory tree; > > Burn it to CDROM; and > > Try again. > > If this is flawed, please say where and how. Thanks! When you boot from the CD you should get to a menu and option 2 is escape to the loader prompt. If you use that to get the prompt you should be able to do set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="0" to set the hint manually then do boot to continue the boot process Regards, Gary
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