Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Eric Anderson wrote:

> 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. :)

  Well, there are so many kinds of PERC cards.  Some are just Mylex cards.
Others are MegaRAID.  I think they use some Adaptec now.

  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.

> Eric
>
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> Eric Anderson	   Systems Administrator      Centaur Technology
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Tom