FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, For the first time in many years, I've stumbled across a server hardware where FreeBSD kernel refuses to boot. It's FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server with 2x Quad core E5520 processors and 16GB of RAM. Linux boots on that hardware just fine. Linux dmesg is available here:

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Maxim Sobolev wrote: the boot command, HEAD - filled in console with funny blinking characters. ...and hanged machine after that as well. -Maxim ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Update: I've discovered that the 7.3 kernels actually boot after some ridiculously long waiting period after the boot command (i.e. 10 minutes or even more). I suspect that it might be caused by the memory probing, which as far as I know the FreeBSD does to determine if the physical memory

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 8:30:42 am Maxim Sobolev wrote: Update: I've discovered that the 7.3 kernels actually boot after some ridiculously long waiting period after the boot command (i.e. 10 minutes or even more). I suspect that it might be caused by the memory probing, which as far as I

vdso and shared page patch

2010-04-20 Thread Giuseppe Cocomazzi
Hi, I've written a huge patch which implements vdso support and shared page subsystem for freebsd. Unfortunately, I've been waiting for a review for quite a long time and, after some positive responses, silence overcame, so the code became a bit old, also due to my difficulty in keeping the

Re: vdso and shared page patch

2010-04-20 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Giuseppe, On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:57:04PM +0200, Giuseppe Cocomazzi wrote: Feedback would be very appreciated. This is excellent news! I've been thinking about making such patch myself, but it seems you beat me to it :-) I believe this functionality would be a good addition to CURRENT,

Re: Loading a KLM at boot time (issues) [SOLVED]

2010-04-20 Thread Patrick Mahan
We have found the problem, it was pilot error. Thanks to Andriy for the boot verbose suggestion it was what put me on the correct trail. A brief background to set the context: The random.ko is needed to support ssh issues and because for various reasons we could not have it compiled directly

Re: /etc in CVS (was: Another tool for updating /etc)

2010-04-20 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:14:13 +0200 Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Hi Bakul, Sorry for the late reply, I'm lagging behind in my FreeBSD mailbox :). On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:57:48AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: But I wonder... why not build something like this around cvs?

Re: /etc in CVS

2010-04-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/20/2010 11:30 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: My suggestion was in the context of upgrding a system to a new release. There are changes to /**/etc/**/*(.) files going from release R to R+1. I was pointing out that what mergemaster does (merging in these changes to your locally modified etc

Re: vdso and shared page patch

2010-04-20 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Giuseppe Cocomazzi sbude...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've written a huge patch which implements vdso support and shared page subsystem for freebsd. Unfortunately, I've been waiting for a review for quite a long time and, after some positive responses, silence

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 8:30:42 am Maxim Sobolev wrote: Update: I've discovered that the 7.3 kernels actually boot after some ridiculously long waiting period after the boot command (i.e. 10 minutes or even more). I suspect that it might be caused by the memory probing,

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 8:30:42 am Maxim Sobolev wrote: Update: I've discovered that the 7.3 kernels actually boot after some ridiculously long waiting period after the boot command (i.e. 10 minutes or even more). I suspect that it might be caused by the memory probing,

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Maxim Sobolev wrote: Maybe try adding hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1 to /boot/device.hints? That has reportedly removed minute-long boot delays on some Nehalem machines. No, that have not helped at all. I measured the delay - it's about 6 minutes from boot command to the

regenerating /var/db/pkg

2010-04-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it possible to rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade installed) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe,

Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

2010-04-20 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 21.04.2010 2:44, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Maxim Sobolev wrote: Maybe try adding hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1 Actually it helped, thank you very much! The problem was that I have had my hints compiled into the kernel itself. Hi, Maxim. I tried to boot 9.0-CURRENT amd64