5.1-RELEASE TODO

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

Tom Samplonius <tom at sdf.com> writes:
>   I guess I'm not the only one with hardware that is unusable with FreeBSD
> 5.x, but FreeBSD 5.x simply is not installable on Dell PowerEdge 6350
> servers.  FreeBSD 4.8 works fine on the same hardware.  FreeBSD 5.0,
> 5.1-BETA1, 5.1-BETA2, and 5.1-RC1 all die in sysinstall is detecting
> hardware and drop the machine into the kernel debugger.  It also kills the
> display, making it tough to catch.  I've tried with ACPI off.  Same
> result.

What chipset does this machine use?

I've recently seen similar problems on a friend's i810-based Toshiba
Equium 3100M - with 4.7, 5.1, and some unknown incarnation of RedHat.
I tried upgrading the BIOS and resetting it to "safe" defaults on the
off chance that it was some kind of power management bug, to no avail.
Immediately after sysinstall comes up and starts probing devices, the
display goes blank, but the machine doesn't shut down - the PSU fan,
CD-ROM and harddisk keep spinning.  I can't remember whether the CPU
fan stopped.  Unfortunately, I didn't have a serial console available.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des at ofug.org