Installation of FreeBSD9 on a HP Blade (ProLiant BL465c G1) is not possible. Upon booting from the installation medium (be it "disc1" or "dvd") is always ends up with the system completely freezing / panicking To be exact, the CD boots up to the point where it says "usbus3: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0" then freezing and/or panicking. I've tried the following things: o) boot from CD with default settings -> freeze o) boot from CD with ACPI off -> kernel panic o) boot from CD "safe mode" -> kernel panic o) boot from CD verbose mode -> freeze Interesting to see that "verbose" doesn't reveal any additional details and booting either safe mode or with ACPI turned off, you end up with a kernel panic. Here's what additional things I tried: o) upgrading the Blade BIOS to the latest available release being ProLiant BL465c G1 System ROM: A13 05/02/2011; backup system ROM: 02/26/2007 iLO 2 Firmware Version: 1.35 07/16/2007 No change - freeze or panic. o) Full hardware check using the HP diagnostic tools - no problem here. o) Downloading the .ISO again and burning a new CD - same result. o) Installing via iLO (remote management console) vs. installing from real CD - same result For your reference I did some screenshots that I made available on the WEB: http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-default.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-ACPI-off-01.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-ACPI-off-02.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-ACPI-off-03.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-ACPI-off-04.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-Verbose-mode-01.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-Verbose-mode-02.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-Verbose-mode-03.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-Safe-mode-01.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-Safe-mode-02.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-Safe-mode-03.jpg http://www.jenisch.at/FreeBSD-9-install-on-HP-blade/Boot-Safe-mode-04.jpg How-To-Repeat: Is 100% reproducible (see above)
Did you try the "hostres" workaround mentioned in "Open issues" at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html? Yuri
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Hi, Just tried booting off the installation medium with set debug.acpi.disabled="hostres" boot Same result - freezes at exactly the same location (see original screenshots). -ewald
First, there is probably no point in trying to boot without ACPI support on modern systems. Most likely "Safe mode" is just equivalent to "ACPI off" for the installation media. Second, it's surprising the Verbose option doesn't result in more verbose boot messages. Could you please re-test this? I suspect that your problem might be related to the recent eventtimers changes. Could you please try playing with setting the following tunables on the loader prompt (via 'set' command)? kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 kern.eventtimer.timer="LAPIC" -- Andriy Gapon
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:45:23AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > I suspect that your problem might be related to the recent eventtimers changes. > Could you please try playing with setting the following tunables on the loader > prompt (via 'set' command)? > > kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 > kern.eventtimer.timer="LAPIC" > Hi Andriy, This neatly did the trick! :-) In setting both values I was able to boot off the install-CD. After installation I had to make sure both of these settings end up in /boot/loader.conf so the machine comes up. Unfortunately I've now got another problem: When doing a "sync" this command obviously doesn't terminate (i.e. no commandline-prompt reappearing). Could this be related to the same cause? BTW, Any documentation as to what these two settings you mentioned actually do? Thanks for your help! -ewald
on 26/01/2012 19:45 Ewald Jenisch said the following: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:45:23AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> I suspect that your problem might be related to the recent eventtimers changes. >> Could you please try playing with setting the following tunables on the loader >> prompt (via 'set' command)? >> >> kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 >> kern.eventtimer.timer="LAPIC" >> > > Hi Andriy, > > This neatly did the trick! :-) In setting both values I was able to boot > off the install-CD. After installation I had to make sure both of these > settings end up in /boot/loader.conf so the machine comes up. > > Unfortunately I've now got another problem: When doing a "sync" this > command obviously doesn't terminate (i.e. no commandline-prompt reappearing). > Could this be related to the same cause? Not sure. > BTW, Any documentation as to what these two settings you mentioned actually do? > > Thanks for your help! There is eventtimers(4) manual page. You may also want to try to contact Alexander Motin (mav@) directly, he is the author and maintainer of that code. -- Andriy Gapon
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Unfortunately this PR was never addressed before these versions of FreeBSD went out of support. Sorry. If this is still a problem, please open a new PR. Thanks.