No disks found on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE on Sun X4500

[Florian Smeets]

On 12.10.10 20:38, Sean Caron wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 

Hi,

> I've been contracted to try and get FreeBSD up and running on a Sun Fire
> X4500 "thumper" type system. It's been claimed as far back as 2007 that
> this system is apparently supported with no major issues:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2007-May/003165.html
> 
> However in trying both FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, 8.1-STABLE (9/2010), and
> 7.3-STABLE (9/2010), I am getting the exact same failure mode as this
> fellow:
> 
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14887
> 
> The system boots up, I don't see anything pertaining to disks at all in
> the boot messages, and, unsurprisingly the installer claims that no
> disks are found.
> 
> I've tried this just booting normally, hitting "6" at the boot menu and
> manually loading the mvs driver:
> 
> load mvs
> boot
> 

On 8.1 try

set hw.hptrr.attach_generic=0
load mvs
boot

After I set hw.hptrr.attach_generic to 0 mvs found all my disk. Without
it I had the same problem you describe.

HTH,
Florian