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Date:      Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:05:53 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <3FCCE291.3070807@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031202104513.C84301@light.sdf.com>
References:  <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> <20031201171044.N54268@pooker.samsco.home> <20031202104513.C84301@light.sdf.com>

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Tom wrote:

>  Just to be complete, there are already a whole bunch of machines that
>will not boot 5.x, irregardless of the ACPI issues.  I've never been able
>to boot 5.x with ACPI on or off, on any of the 5 Dell PowerEdge 6350
>servers I have here, even though they run 4.9 perfectly.  I have a PR open
>on it.
>
>  So even without the ACPI issues on some hardware, there are still other
>reasons why 5.x is going to fail to boot.
>  
>

Are you using a PERC in those boxes?  I've seen issues with PERC 
controllers on 5.1, but 4.8 worked fine.  I received a patch, which 
fixed it, but it's a bit hard to install the os, and then rebuild world 
without rebooting the machine. :)


Eric

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