poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

[Scott Long]

The just-released 7.2-RC2 should fix this problem.  Please let me
know ASAP if it works for you.

Scott


Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> Hello All,
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> I encountered the same problem as reported to this list earlier,
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-February/048305.html, 
> but then with 7.1-RELEASE-p4.
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> Interestingly enough, FreeBSD booted fine on the machine installed 
> (updated from 7.0 to 7.1-RELEASE-p4).
> This machine is a PowerEdge 1850 bios A04 with Perc 43/Si bios H430 / 
> fwVer 521S.
> 
> When booting a drive from this machine in another PowerEdge 1850, bios 
> A07 Perc 4e/Si bios H435 FwVer 5B2D
> it drops to the can mount root prompt, similar as reported originally, 
> see http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg.
> By specifying the kern.cam.scsi_delay, as suggested in this thread, the 
> problem is solved.
> 
> So there is a workaround, but I would prefer to see this fixed instead.
> I can't find a problem report regarding this topic though so can't find 
> the current status.
> 
> Does anybody know the current status?
> I can test if this issue has been solved if needed. I need to know then 
> what to test of course... 7.1-STABLE or 7.2 BETA1 etc...
> 
> Regards,
> Jeroen
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