I have a few machines which use the Broadcom NetXtreme gigabit ethernet interface (bnx(4)). I had opportunity to boot 7.99.55 on them today and when booting as a diskless client, the machines froze during rc script processing with:
Building databases: dev_ The wscons console still responds to keystrokes and echoes them, but no further progress is made. Holding the power switch is the only way to regain control of the machine. Net-boot/NFS root in single-user mode, the network interface works and passes traffic. During multi-user startup it is reconfigured using 'dhcpcd' and then hangs as shown above. Observed on: Dell PowerEdge 1950 (III) Dell PowerEdge 2950 (II) HP ProLiant DL380G5 IBM System x3650 All are set up to boot NetBSD/amd64. The PE1950 currently has no local disks so can only be a diskless client. The PE2950, DL380G5, and x3650 have a local disk installation of 7.1_RC1, so I put a 7.99.55 kernel and modules on them and booted from disk. Using this, I re-installed the 7.1_RC1 kernel and sets via an amd-managed NFS mount. The interface seems to work fine under -current this way. Moving "etc/ifconfig.bnx?" aside in the NFS root so no reconfiguration of the interface is done (using only what was configured during the kernel NFS BOOT operation) does not help. It still hangs as shown above. It used to work with -current as of 19 September 2016 (Yarr!)--the last time I booted the PE1950 for testing. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
