kern/122572: [install] FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't install on Dell
PowerEdge SC1435 [regression]
Mars G Miro
spry at anarchy.in.the.ph
Tue Mar 10 03:20:06 PDT 2009
The following reply was made to PR kern/122572; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mars G Miro <spry at anarchy.in.the.ph>
To: Mel <mel.xyzzy at rachie.is-a-geek.net>, Felipe Neuwald <felipe at neuwald.biz>,
bug-followup at freebsd.org, vwe at freebsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/122572: [install] FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't install on Dell
PowerEdge SC1435 [regression]
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:56:37 +0800
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Mars G Miro <spry at anarchy.in.the.ph> wrote=
:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Mel <mel.xyzzy at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wro=
te:
>> On Friday 11 July 2008 12:17:50 Mars G Miro wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> =A0 Yeah this bug exists in:
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- 7.0-RELEASE (i386, amd64)
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- 7.0-STABLE-200806 (amd64, didnt try i386)
>>>
>>> =A0 8.0-CURRENT-200806/amd64 (didn't try i386) works OK
>>
Hi guys,
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE works fine on this.
>>
>> I upgraded this machine from source to RELENG_7 this week and it hosed t=
he
>> disk, with multiple WRITE_DMA and NMI's in /var/log/messages. I was unab=
le to
>> get a verbose boot before it totally stopped working. So it's not just t=
he
>> install, it's acpi and/or SATA related. [1]
>> However, this is good information. Is there any way to identify, what wa=
s
>> fixed in -current that makes it work? I'm happy to try any MFC patches o=
nce
>
>
> I guess this isn't fixed in RELENG_7 atm. I really dunno whatever it
> is in -CURRENT that fixed this, sorry :-(
>
>> it's back on RELENG_6 (probably today). I'll reserve a bootable slice fo=
r it.
>> For example, could you (Mars) post a verbose boot?
>>
>
> sure: http://pastebin.com/m16928365
>
>> [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=
.
>
> Jahh, i think I experienced the adX name change (just hafta correct
> /etc/fstab, then reboot) sometime when I was in 6.X, I think other
> folks have reported this too. But this is a separate issue (I think)
> ;-)
>
> Thanks.
>
>> --
>> Mel
>>
>
>
>
> --
> cheers
> mars
>
--=20
cheers
mars
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