i386/61326: Reboot while booting from 5.2-RELEASE CD

[Nicholas Paufler]

>Number:         61326
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Reboot while booting from 5.2-RELEASE CD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 13 11:50:20 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Nicholas Paufler
>Release:        5.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
The Internet Centre
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
      System is a Supermicro Superserver 5013CT (http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SuperServer5013C-T.htm)

I've added in a Promise Fasttrak SATA150 TX2Plus Serial ATA RAID card after I was unable to get the ICH5R SATA onboard working (see PR: 60344), with 2 80gb Seagate SATA drives configured as a RAID mirror.

If I try and boot from any 5.2 ISO (5.2-RC1, 5.2-RC2, or 5.2-RELEASE) the system immediately reboots about half a second into the boot procedure. I don't believe it even gets to the point where it displays anything.

However, a 5.1-RELEASE CD boots just fine and FreeBSD installs flawlessly. Likewise, a 4.9-RELEASE CD also boots fine, however it is not able to detect the controller and thus I can't install.

To work around it, I created some 5.2-RELEASE install floppies and booted off those. There were no problems with booting from floppy, and the 5.2 INSTALL from the same CD worked perfectly.
>How-To-Repeat:
      Install FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE from a CD onto (I am assuming) a machine with a Promise Fasttrak SATA raid controller. 
>Fix:
      It must be something related to the ATAng code that was changed between 5.1 and 5.2, as 5.1 install CD works.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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