FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2/alpha successes/failures

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, 2004-Sep-01 11:51:18 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:28:45PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote..
>> On a AS4100 4xEV5/466 and 8GB RAM (logically reduced to 2GB),
>> it hangs just after GEOM configures md0c.
>
>I think ticso has no such problems on his AS4100(?)

I tried disk2 on another AS4100 (1xEV5/533, 1GB RAM) with very mixed results.
1st try: System hung as it was about to write "Probing devices, please wait 
   (this can take a while)..."
2nd and 3rd tries: System hung after printing
   Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
   md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680 bytes at 0xfffffc00009c2a80
4th try: System booted successfully and I got into the fixit shell.

I also found that I couldn't break into the book sequence - whatever I
tried, the kernel would boot straight away.  I'm not sure why.

This system has been happily running Tru64 for quite some time and I'd
be surprised if this was a hardware problem - though the behaviour is
difficult to explain otherwise.

Once I got into the Fixit shell, I would bring up a DE500 (dc) interface,
NFS mount a filesystem and read it.

There is definitely a problem with Ctrl-C.  stty within the fixit
shell reports sane values but running "sleep 60" and trying Ctrl-C
brings up the Abort/Restart/Continue window.  sleep eventually died
with a SIGILL and I wound up with both the fixit shell and sysinstall
fighting over the keyboard.  This makes the fixit CD very brittle -
if you make a mistake, you're likely to have to reboot.

dmesg available on request.

-- 
Peter Jeremy