Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO
From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 12/03/03
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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:29:58 -0600 To: Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Tom wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Eric Anderson wrote:
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>>Tom wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>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. :)
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> Well, there are so many kinds of PERC cards. Some are just Mylex cards.
>Others are MegaRAID. I think they use some Adaptec now.
>
My troubles were with the MegaRAID variant, I'm not sure about the others..
> Either way, I tried booting the install CD with all cards disconnected,
>just to see if I could get the installer up to the main menu. No go. The
>display switches off as soon as sysinstall starts probing devices. It
>appears to panic, but the display is dead. Once I was able to use
>scrolllock at the critical moment just before the kernel starts
>sysinstall, and prevent the display from switch off, but when I release
>the scroll lock, I was at the DDB prompt. Not good.
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First - I hope you mean the cards are physically OUT of the machine - it
seemed to me that if they had a logical disk configuration on the card,
it would hang. Although, it sounds like your problem is different.
Actually, it kind of sounds like it thinks you are doing the "-p" boot
thing to check for keyboard and roll over to the serial port. Other
than that, I'm out of ideas (doesn't take long for that to happen
though!).. :(
Eric
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