Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO

From: Tom Samplonius (tom_at_sdf.com)
Date: 06/09/03

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    Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 05:18:42 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>

    On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

    > Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> writes:
    > > I guess I'm not the only one with hardware that is unusable with FreeBSD
    > > 5.x, but FreeBSD 5.x simply is not installable on Dell PowerEdge 6350
    > > servers. FreeBSD 4.8 works fine on the same hardware. FreeBSD 5.0,
    > > 5.1-BETA1, 5.1-BETA2, and 5.1-RC1 all die in sysinstall is detecting
    > > hardware and drop the machine into the kernel debugger. It also kills the
    > > display, making it tough to catch. I've tried with ACPI off. Same
    > > result.
    >
    > What chipset does this machine use?

      I'm not sure. FreeBSD 4.8 does work on the machine, and I posted the
    4.8 dmesg into the PR (#52561). There aren't too many quad Xeon
    chipsets... probably Intel or Serverworks.

    > I've recently seen similar problems on a friend's i810-based Toshiba
    > Equium 3100M - with 4.7, 5.1, and some unknown incarnation of RedHat.
    > I tried upgrading the BIOS and resetting it to "safe" defaults on the
    > off chance that it was some kind of power management bug, to no avail.
    > Immediately after sysinstall comes up and starts probing devices, the
    > display goes blank, but the machine doesn't shut down - the PSU fan,
    > CD-ROM and harddisk keep spinning. I can't remember whether the CPU
    > fan stopped. Unfortunately, I didn't have a serial console available.

      I've tried serial console as well (with 5.1-RC1), and it just stops
    after probing the disks.

    > DES
    > --
    > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

    Tom

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