Hi Kip,
I seriously don't understand what has happened. If I boot kernel.old I
still get the same problem. Very confusing. :(.
Joe
on 21/05/2009 19:28 Kip Macy said the following:
I have no idea what is happening. I think our best bet is having
someone with insight into ATA provide us with help in adding
diagnostics.
Sorry for the trouble. Perhaps you can just roll back to 7.2 for now.
Cheers,
Kip
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Joe Karthauser<j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
Hmm, I've had a bit of a miserable afternoon trying to fight my RELENG_7
server, which now doesn't boot. :(.
So, it's a ZRAID2 pool with a ufs/gmirror root partition split over 5 disks
(gmirror on 500Mb partition on each of five disks, and zraid2 over the rest
of each drive).
What I did was to update the userland, and then reboot. I didn't upgrade the
kernel (but I've subsequently done that and have the same problem).
What happens is that the kernel hangs booting just after displaying a LABEL
message or ZFS pool/spool message. I _can_ get it to boot if I boot single
user with acpi switched off. When I do that I can manually start zfs, and
mount all the partitions. However, one of the disks is missing.... more on
that next.
The machine is running a gigabyte motherboard (domestic gamer P35 board,
similar to this
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2533,
although it might be a DS4 variant). I've got 5 of the 6 sata ports wired
to a 5 unit SATA hot swap bay (5 drives vertially mounted into 3 5-1/4" bays
kind of thing).
Now, because of the gmirror I can boot the system on any disk, or
combination of plugged in disks. I should be able to succeed with the
kernel probe up to the attempt to mount the root filesystem irrespective of
any zfs pool, etc. And, indeed, this has been working fine for about two
years.
But, now it hangs in the same place no matter what disk I boot on (I've
tried every bay).
But, without ACPI enabled it does appear to boot ok... what's going on here?
Is it possible that the machine has developed a hardware fault?
Ok, finally, if I boot with ACPI disabled then one of the disks is missing.
If I unplug it I get a disconnect message from the ata device, and a
reconnect and reinit attempt when I plug it back in, but no device appears
on the bus. Usually I can do a 'atacontrol detach sata4; sleep 1; atacontrol
attach sata4' and the device reappears. This happens on the other buses, but
not on the last one. It's not the disk, because if I swap it into another
bay, it comes up and appears on the bus. On the other hand it doesn't appear
to be that controller or slow in the drive bay because if I unplug all the
over disks the system will boot that disk and get as far as the hang....
hmm.
Is this a consequence of disabling the ACPI?
Does anyone have a clue what might be going on?
Joe
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