Strange Error 5 on Real Hardware (Question)

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Another update everyone.

I just found how to add modules to mfsBSD and have fixed the hardware
problem on Desktop system.

Have a great day,
Lonnie


On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 10:03 AM Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just an update on my effort.
>
> I have just found that the mfsBSD "SE" version boots on my real hardware
> so it does, in fact, seem like a driver problem. I am going to investigate
> the differences in the drivers for the mfsBSD "SE" and mfsBSD "mini"
> versions to see what is different as they are both building from the same
> FreeBSD RELEASE 12.1 disc1.
>
> Cheers,
> Lonnie
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 9:20 AM Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Hope that everyone is doing well today.
>>
>> I have been building mfsBSD images for testing on real hardware and have
>> been using the FreeBSD RELEASE 12.1 iso to do it.  Now, I have a procedure
>> for building the base mfsBSD (90MB) and also the "mini" mfsBSD (27MB)
>> images. Working on adding packages and stuff next.
>>
>> The real hardware is as older system that I have:
>>
>> Test system:
>> HP Pavilion p7-1240 AMD A10-5700 3.4 GHz Quad Core Desktop
>>
>> I also have a little bit stronger system
>>
>> Dell PowerEdge C6220 SFF 4 Node Server 8x Xeon E5-2650 256GB RAM 4x 2TB
>> 2.5" HD
>>
>> for 2nd stage testing later once I can get things to work on the smaller
>> desktop
>>
>> What seems to be strange here is that the FreeBSD disc1:
>>
>>
>> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.1/FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
>>
>> boot up just fine on the Desktop and I do not have any problems, but when
>> I build the mfsBSD images which boot up fine on a Virtualbox VM that I
>> have running on Debian 10 right now, they do not boot up on the real
>> hardware and I get this strange "Error 5":
>>
>> Error 5 Unretryable Error
>> Cddone Got back 0x5 back
>> Read(10) CDB
>> CAM Status SCSI Status Error
>> SCSI Status: Check Condition
>> SCSI Sense: Medium Error ASC 11,5
>>
>> Maybe I need to add some kernel modules to the mfsBSD build, but I really
>> not sure as I am still pretty new to FreeBSD while migrating from the Linux
>> world more and more.
>>
>> Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Lonnie
>>
>>