Re: Installation trouble with HP Proliant ML110 G5

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Josep Pujadas i Jubany <josep@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello!

I'm trying to install 7.0 in a new HP Proliant ML110 G5.

This box has only 6 SATA connections (CD & HD are SATA), not IDE
interfaces.

FreeBSD 7.0 CD1 (i386) starts but stops with an error:

ad0: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250620NS 3BJP> at ata0-master SATA150
acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H60L/E904) at ata2-master SATA150
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (1 retry left)
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (0 retries left)
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (1 retry left)
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (0 retries left)
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (1 retry left)
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (0 retries left)
acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out

I tested other situations:

* Acer machine with CD SATA --------> Same problem.
* Other HP machine with IDE CD -----> No problem.
* HP Proliant ML110 G5 with
FreeBSD 6.2 CD1 (i386) -----------> No problem.

I made a Google search and there are people with similar problem:

http://www.google.com/search?q=acd0+TIMEOUT+READ_BIG+freebsd+7.0

I tried to change my BIOS settings and/or use no-ACPI boot. Same problem.

I went outside for more than one hour and when I returned sysinstall was
launched. So, retraying the CD unit for a longtime worked (?).

I made my installation but I found two more problems:

* On-board NIC was not detected.


See PR kern/119779 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/119779

* shutdown -r now did'nt restart the system. The system was blocked at:


The system will reboot properly if you load ipmi module and specify watchdog
timeout in 60 seconds.

# kldload ipmi
# watchdog -t 60; reboot

You can create handy alias.
alias reboot 'watchdog -t 60; /sbin/reboot'

I didn't have any issue with DVD drive when it was running 6.3/7.0.

--
Regards
Kevin Foo
_______________________________________________
freebsd-current@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Relevant Pages