special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:19:11AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote..
> Folks,  
> 
> I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed
> related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L.  Test installs 
> on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk
> fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't
> start or similar.  I got:
> 
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.6: Unsupported relocation type 1611047936
> in non-PLT relocations
> 
> Observed on one DS10 and one DS10L.  The problem does not
> occur when you use a SCSI disk (which I typically do so I missed this
> before).
> 
> Those of you who own this machine type and have a spare IDE drive,
> can you please test it?  Other reports for different system models
> are interesting too of course.

A check of 5.5-BETA1 would be interesting too.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org