Re: 8.0-BETA1 on a HP DL585 Issues

2009/7/16 Andrew Tulloch <andrew_at_flarn.com>:
> 2009/7/16 Raul <raul_at_pop.isdefe.es>:
>> Chris Ruiz escribió:
>>
>>>> I've upgraded one of our HP DL585's (4xdual core opteron, 16GB ram)
>>>> from 7.2 to 8.0-BETA1 and seem to have a couple of issues.
>>
>> [....]
>>
>> Same symptoms here with HP dl385's.
>>
>> [....]
>>>
>>> Try setting hw.pci.mcfg=0 at the boot loader prompt or in
>>> /boot/loader.conf and see if that helps with this issue.
>>
>> I've tried it with today sources (BETA2 ;D) without success :/
>> My last resort (verbose boot) doesn't work so I've used the loader prompt to
>> set hw.pci.mcfg
>>
>> My mail on stable talk about the same problems:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-July/051105.html
>
> Does look like the same problem.
>
> I've noticed both leds flashing on one of the built in bge NICs on the
> back of the machine, which doesn't seem to be happening on an
> identical machine running 7.2-STABLE.
>
>> Good news are that I am also testing 8 on a 360 g4 (also amd64) and it has
>> had other problems booting BETA1 ... until today!. It has started perfectly
>> with BETA2 sources from a fresh 7.2 release BD. I plan to test multicast
>> routing (xorp) on this box ... so let's see.
>
> There seemed to be a ciss driver problem that got fixed that probably
> affected both the AMD and Intel based HP machines.
>
> I've got some 360G5's idle so I'll see if I can try on one of those
> and see if it's just the AMD based machines that have this problem.
>
> Managed to get it booted again with verbose this time, dmesg attached,
> it's really random whether it hangs or not.

I seem to be having some luck with setting hw.bge.asf_allow=0 at the
loader or /boot/loader.conf

Managed to reboot the machine three times now without the reboot hang
or the hang on boot.

Hopefully that might work for you too, I believe the 385's have the
same bge NICs as the 585's?

Regards,
Andrew