Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO

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

> Tom Samplonius <tom_at_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_at_ofug.org


Tom