kern/122572: [install] FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't install on Dell PowerEdge SC1435 [regression]

[Mel]

The following reply was made to PR kern/122572; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mel <mel.xyzzy at rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To: "Mars G Miro" <spry at anarchy.in.the.ph>
Cc: "Felipe Neuwald" <felipe at neuwald.biz>,
 bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/122572: [install] FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't install on Dell PowerEdge SC1435 [regression]
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:53:10 +0200

 On Friday 11 July 2008 12:17:50 Mars G Miro wrote:
 > Hi Guys,
 >
 >   Yeah this bug exists in:
 >        - 7.0-RELEASE (i386, amd64)
 >        - 7.0-STABLE-200806 (amd64, didnt try i386)
 >
 >   8.0-CURRENT-200806/amd64 (didn't try i386) works OK
 
 
 I upgraded this machine from source to RELENG_7 this week and it hosed the 
 disk, with multiple WRITE_DMA and NMI's in /var/log/messages. I was unable to 
 get a verbose boot before it totally stopped working. So it's not just the 
 install, it's acpi and/or SATA related. [1]
 However, this is good information. Is there any way to identify, what was 
 fixed in -current that makes it work? I'm happy to try any MFC patches once 
 it's back on RELENG_6 (probably today). I'll reserve a bootable slice for it.
 For example, could you (Mars) post a verbose boot?
 
 [1] I have a second machine that is totally different (i386/Gateway/ich5/Intel 
 HTT/SATA-150) that had the same install problem and an in place upgrade 
 changed the FreeBSD 6 'ad4' to 'ad16', so we went with UDMA disk instead.
 -- 
 Mel