I preform a normal install off of a snv_82 DVD, onto a drive on the marvell
controller. All appears normal. At the end of the install, the machine
reboots. It gets as far as the first three lines starting with "SunOS
Release 5.11 Version snv_82 64-bit". It sits like this in excess of
atleast an hour. Vary occationally, rather then acting this way, it
continually resets the port with the drive in it. I have tried replacing
the mainboard, the marvell controller, and the harddrive. This does not
happen if I use a snv-82 disk.
inorder to get the data both you and kerry requested, I booted off of the
dvd and mounted the HD (in kerry's case i chrooted to the drive, as the DVD
does not have that program).
(i have never had a problem booting from the DVD, nor do i have a problem
with the "failsafe" option)
this only happens with the marvel cards being plugged into the PCI-X slot,
if it is plugged to PCI (32-bit) slot it seems to work normally. If i use a
drive on the mainboard, it works normally.
This did not happen on snv_68. it appears that it did happen snv_78, and
snv_81.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/21/2008 04:47:17 PM:
> Hi Andrew,
> Sorry, but I'm still unclear exactly what the problem is.
>
> I understand you have two Marvell SATA controllers
> plugged into PCI-X slots.
> The PCI-X slots are bridged to PCIe using an
> Intel 6702PXH chip (pci8086,32c).
>
> And I understand everything is OK, when the Marvel cards
> are in normal PCI slots
>
> Are you saying this system worked ok with snv_68,
> but now does not boot with snv_82 ?
>
> You talk about the system hangs on the "first reboot".
> "Reboot" implies to me it has already booted succesfully
> from power-up & you are now booting it again!
> And the 'first reboot' would be the second time it has booted,
> from a power-up?
>
> But you have been able to boot the system & get the prtconf,
> showing the Marvell cards in the PCI-X slots!
>
> Maybe you could start by saying what happens from a power-on to
> the motherboard!
>
> Is the boot drive attached to a Marvell card or a AHCI/ICH9 port?
> Presumably you want all these SATA ports for ZFS.
> Are you booting from ZFS drives or a UFS drive?
>
> Regarding debugging a system that hangs when you try to boot it,
> a quick Google, seems to point towards using the kernel debugger.
> Apparently you can edit the Grub entry to load the debugger
> before you load Solaris, so that when Solaris hangs you
> can still examine the system, & get a backtrace.
> (With a multi-core CPU, you have the problem of
> deciding on which core the problem has occurred!)
> But I have not tried this, and I need to read up on it some more.
> See this link for some background:
> http://blogs.sun.com/dmick/entry/diagnosing_kernel_hangs_panics_with
> Best Regards
> Nigel smith
>
>
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