8.0-BETA1 on a HP DL585 Issues

Chris Ruiz yr.retarded at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 17:35:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Andrew Tulloch<andrew at flarn.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Firstly the machine will no longer shutdown or reboot, it just sits at
> the Uptime:: XXXX prompt and doesn't reboot or power off, no
> Rebooting/cpu_reset() messages.
>
> Secondly, sometimes the machine will not boot, it'll load the kernel
> and start, but then hang at:
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0

Try setting hw.pci.mcfg=0 at the boot loader prompt or in
/boot/loader.conf and see if that helps with this issue.

> The same seems to happen with GENERIC and a kernel config minus
> witness etc for speed.
>
> If I revert to the 7.2 kernel it's fine.
>
> Any suggestions on things I can try?
>
> Full dmesg attached.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew

Chris
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