HP Netserver LT 6000r

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 11 July 2005 06:17 am, David Landgren wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Friday 01 July 2005 11:36 am, David Landgren wrote:
> >>David King wrote:
> >>>Again, for the curious and those searching the archives (believe
> >>>me, I wish this was available when I was setting it up): SMP is now
> >>>working without a hitch. All I did was compile with the default SMP
> >>>kernel configuration file. All of the other changes had to be made
> >>>to get it to boot at all. I'd love to see APM working, but have yet
> >>>to make that happen. Same with WOL.
> >>
> >>Good grief! I started searching the web for information on this beast,
> >>never realising I had the thread sitting in my inbox :)
> >>
> >>I inherited a 6-way HP Netserver LT 6000r and I've been getting it to
> >>run 5.4-STABLE. If I let it boot by itself it hangs on the first of the
> >>following two lines (the second is never displayed)
> >>
> >>amrd0: 52095MB (106690560 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
> >>ses0 at amr0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> >>
> >>(full dmegs output is at the end of this message).
> >
> > So, I'm confused as it seems that your dmesg below shows the box booting
> > up just fine past this hang.  Does it hang with ACPI enabled but work
> > fine with ACPI disabled?  If so, you can probably run the box just fine
> > with ACPI disabled.  Can you check to see if all the IRQs are the same
> > for the ACPI and non-ACPI dmesgs?  If so, then you probably just need to
> > disable ACPI.
>
> Yes, If I disable ACPI (choice 2 on the beastie screen) it boots up
> fine, and that's the dmesg I posted. If I choose 1, then it just hands
> at the amrd0 line, and the ses0 line is never seen.
>
> To disable ACPI correctly, then, I need only remove the option line in
> the kernel config file? What is the impact of running without? As far as
> I am aware it deals with power management. If my server is running in an
> air-conditioned room with redundant power supplies I shouldn't really be
> worried, correct?

You can just add 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' to /boot/loader.conf.  ACPI's power 
management stuff is mostly applicable to laptops rather than servers.

> What command will show me the current IRQ assignements? Just grepping
> for irq in the dmesg gives:
>
> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-15 on motherboard
> ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 16-31 on motherboard
> fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x1800-0x183f mem
> 0xec900000-0xec9fffff,0xec801000-0xec801fff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci0
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.51> mem 0xf4000000-0xf7ffffff irq 20 at
> device 3.1 on pci4
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
>
> Is there something more tailored than that? I scanned through sysctl but
> it doesn't look like they are listed therein.

No, there isn't a good command other than dmesg | grep irq.  I should probably 
write one actually.

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