Re: [Soekris] RESOLVED: Problem on net5501 upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 from 8.3
On 2013-02-17, Corey Halpin wrote: I have a net5501-70 which is running FreeBSD 8.3. It's got one internal SATA HD from which it boots, and also has a couple of external drives connected via a USB hub. No expansions cards are installed. I attempted to update it to 9.1-RELEASE following the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html#AEN36 When I reboot into the 9.1 kernel, the boot process chokes with: Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufsid/49fabde14312a481 failed with error 19. I've discovered that if I set FLASH=Secondary, such that the hard drive appears as the primary, then the machine boots properly. ~crh pgpL1IoSEA1XM.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] RESOLVED: Problem on net5501 upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 from 8.3
Corey Halpin chal...@cs.wisc.edu writes: On 2013-02-17, Corey Halpin wrote: I have a net5501-70 which is running FreeBSD 8.3. It's got one internal SATA HD from which it boots, and also has a couple of external drives connected via a USB hub. No expansions cards are installed. I attempted to update it to 9.1-RELEASE following the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/installation.html#AEN36 When I reboot into the 9.1 kernel, the boot process chokes with: Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufsid/49fabde14312a481 failed with error 19. I've discovered that if I set FLASH=Secondary, such that the hard drive appears as the primary, then the machine boots properly. That sounds like a potential bug in 9.1, where it doesn't find a secondary drive if the primary one is missing. pgp8M4UO_l7we.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] RESOLVED: Problem on net5501 upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 from 8.3
On 2013-02-18, Greg Troxel wrote: Corey Halpin chal...@cs.wisc.edu writes: I've discovered that if I set FLASH=Secondary, such that the hard drive appears as the primary, then the machine boots properly. That sounds like a potential bug in 9.1, where it doesn't find a secondary drive if the primary one is missing. Perhaps, but I don't feel like I have sufficient knowledge of the relevant standards, the details of how the net5501 has implemented them, and the code in FreeBSD to jump to that conclusion. I don't know if the code in 9.1 is using IDE emulation or trying to get configuration information via AHCI. If it's AHCI, then I don't know how the net5501 is representing secondary with no primary in AHCI terms, nor do I know if it's valid AHCI, nor do I know the details of how 9.1 is parsing this information. Furthermore, I don't know if 8.3 was using IDE emulation or AHCI, and I don't know how (or if) the AHCI handling has changed from 8.3 to 9.1. Since I don't know these things, I can't say I have much interest in speculating about them. Perhaps the information I've posted here will be sufficient for people who *do* have sufficient domain knowledge to track down whatever bug may exist either in the FreeBSD code or in the net5501's firmware. I am not that person, and unfortunately lack the spare cycles to become that person. In the mean time, at least the list archives now document a workaround for whomever else bumps into this issue. ~crh pgpTc_syphx7k.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] RESOLVED: Problem on net5501 upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 from 8.3
On Feb 18, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Corey Halpin wrote: On 2013-02-18, Greg Troxel wrote: Corey Halpin chal...@cs.wisc.edu writes: I've discovered that if I set FLASH=Secondary, such that the hard drive appears as the primary, then the machine boots properly. That sounds like a potential bug in 9.1, where it doesn't find a secondary drive if the primary one is missing. Perhaps, but I don't feel like I have sufficient knowledge of the relevant standards, the details of how the net5501 has implemented them, and the code in FreeBSD to jump to that conclusion. I don't know if the code in 9.1 is using IDE emulation or trying to get configuration information via AHCI. If it's AHCI, then I don't know how the net5501 is representing secondary with no primary in AHCI terms, nor do I know if it's valid AHCI, nor do I know the details of how 9.1 is parsing this information. Furthermore, I don't know if 8.3 was using IDE emulation or AHCI, and I don't know how (or if) the AHCI handling has changed from 8.3 to 9.1. Since I don't know these things, I can't say I have much interest in speculating about them. Perhaps the information I've posted here will be sufficient for people who *do* have sufficient domain knowledge to track down whatever bug may exist either in the FreeBSD code or in the net5501's firmware. I am not that person, and unfortunately lack the spare cycles to become that person. In the mean time, at least the list archives now document a workaround for whomever else bumps into this issue. Maybe this is due to ATA_STATIC? I do know the handling of ahci changed between 8 and 9, and there were even device name changes, but I don't have a 5501 to see if that would have been affected by that... Warner ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
