IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop - Need help booting recompiled kernel so i can install
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my IBM eServer x225 (8647-5CG) (1x Xeon 2.8GHz(512KB), 2x 2048MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (ecc), 2x 74GB 10K rpm U320 HDD, Ultra320 SCSI LSI 1030 controller, 48x CD-ROM, Broadcom NetXtreme 10/100/1000 Integrated Ethernet, ATI Rage XL) The server/drives runs fine under windows 2003 and ubuntu server but the FreeBSD installation just halts. I've tried: CD: disk1 from 6.2, 7.0, CD: bootonly from 7.0-stable, 8.0-current Floppys: 7.0 They all end the same, cds with an infinite loop of numbers, floppys with BTX Halted and a lot of numbers. int=000derr=efl=00010006eip=000219b2 eax=000219acebx=ecx=c080edx=000587d8 esi=0003e007edi=ebp=0008fcbcesp=00099c88 cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 gs=0010 ss=0010 cs:eip=0f 32 0d 00 01 00 00 0f-30 0f 20 e0 83 c8 30 0f 22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00 ss:esp=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00 00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 cc 87 05 00 BTX halted The only difference is when i boot from 7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-bootonly.iso, or 8.0-CURRENT-200807-i386-bootonly.iso, then i see BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive A: is disk0 Then it stops. If i remove both the harddrives i can boot into the freebsd installer, but as there are no drives, there is nowhere to install. Atleast when i started with the floppys it detected drive1 and 2 before BTX halted.. I asked on questions@ and i was suggested to compile and boot a different kernel on the machine. There are three ways for me to do this, there are IDE-slots in it so i can probably find an old IDE drive somewhere and install. I have access to a rocketraid pci-x card for sata drives (might add yet another problem to the machine) or i can do it with a usb-attached sata/ide drive. I'm guessing the straight IDE approach is the best. What i need to know is how to compile a different kernel, where do i find drivers for the LSI 1030 SCSI-controller? What i see in the old kernel.conf for freebsd 6.0 (or is it 6.2) contains device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion device mfi # LSI MegaRAID SAS I have no idea what they are but SAS is serial attached sata isn't it? And if they're uncommented it should mean that they're active and that they're most likely actually already running in the kernel i'm trying to boot from the installation cd? Can i get other drivers/modules or whatever they're called? When i've compiled the new kernel, how do i transfer it to a cd so i can boot the installation with it? I hope i make any sense with my questions. Thanks in advance :) ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop - Need help booting recompiled kernel so i can install
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my IBM eServer x225 (8647-5CG) (1x Xeon 2.8GHz(512KB), 2x 2048MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (ecc), 2x 74GB 10K rpm U320 HDD, Ultra320 SCSI LSI 1030 controller, 48x CD-ROM, Broadcom NetXtreme 10/100/1000 Integrated Ethernet, ATI Rage XL) Then it stops. If i remove both the harddrives i can boot into the freebsd installer, but as there are no drives, there is nowhere to install. What i need to know is how to compile a different kernel, where do i find drivers for the LSI 1030 SCSI-controller? What i see in the old kernel.conf for freebsd 6.0 (or is it 6.2) contains device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion device mfi # LSI MegaRAID SAS If disconnecting the SCSI drives fixes the problem, I'd guess that you already have a device driver for the SCSI-controller, but it has a problem. You can look into debugging the driver, or you can use a different controller (e.g. PATA/SATA/Firewire/USB or a different SCSI controller) Is 1030 short for 53c1030 ? The 7.0 mpt(4) man page lists LSI Logic 53c1030, LSI Logic LSI2x320-X (Single and Dual Ultra320 SCSI) as being supported. I have no idea what they are but SAS is serial attached sata isn't it? serial attached scsi And if they're uncommented it should mean that they're active and that they're most likely actually already running in the kernel i'm trying to boot from the installation cd? yes Can i get other drivers/modules or whatever they're called? You can uncomment additional drivers and build a new kernel. Or you can load additional drivers after booting with the kldload(8) command (man kldload). Obviously kldload is not useful for drivers that are needed to boot. But if you install to SATA (or whatever), you could boot from SATA and then kldload a custom driver for the LSI 1030 with extra debugging printfs. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop - Need help booting recompiled kernel so i can install
underligast wrote: I've tried: CD: disk1 from 6.2, 7.0, CD: bootonly from 7.0-stable, 8.0-current Floppys: 7.0 They all end the same, cds with an infinite loop of numbers, floppys with BTX Halted and a lot of numbers. int=000derr=efl=00010006eip=000219b2 eax=000219acebx=ecx=c080edx=000587d8 esi=0003e007edi=ebp=0008fcbcesp=00099c88 cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 gs=0010 ss=0010 cs:eip=0f 32 0d 00 01 00 00 0f-30 0f 20 e0 83 c8 30 0f 22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00 ss:esp=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00 00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 cc 87 05 00 BTX halted The only difference is when i boot from 7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-bootonly.iso, or 8.0-CURRENT-200807-i386-bootonly.iso, then i see BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive A: is disk0 Then it stops. If i remove both the harddrives i can boot into the freebsd installer, but as there are no drives, there is nowhere to install. Did you clear the configuration of the RAID controller? Is there a way you can completely reset it? Can you blank the drives? What i need to know is how to compile a different kernel, where do i find drivers for the LSI 1030 SCSI-controller? What i see in the old kernel.conf for freebsd 6.0 (or is it 6.2) contains device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion device mfi # LSI MegaRAID SAS Looking at the source, it seems LSI 1030 is supported by the mpt driver so it should work. Since you have problems with the boot loader, maybe it won't help to build another kernel. A wild guess could be that there's something on the RAID volume that's keeping the boot loader from working. Maybe the partition table is wrong in a subtle way? If you can get the RAID array to work *after* you boot from a FreeBSD installation CD (i.e. boot the machine without the drives, add drives later), try clearing the first megabyte of the array (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1m count=1). I have no idea what they are but SAS is serial attached sata isn't it? And if they're uncommented it should mean that they're active and that they're most likely actually already running in the kernel i'm trying to boot from the installation cd? Can i get other drivers/modules or whatever they're called? When i've compiled the new kernel, how do i transfer it to a cd so i can boot the installation with it? You need to create a bootable CD, at least. Google around, there are several tutorials. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop - Need help booting recompiled kernel so i can install
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:44:58PM +0200, Jonas Lund wrote: BTX is the new bootloader that works in 32bit (it's actually been in for a few releases now). So the kernel has nothing to do with this. I originally subscribed to this list for an almost identical problem. With my rocketraid somethingsomething PCI-SATA2 card with disks connected crashes the BTX loader. Connecting the disks to the internal via epia motherboard solved the problem (I'm using gmirror raid now as apperantly the rocketraid card was just some software thing anyhow). I have a feeling that it might be some combinations of BTX, BIOS and RAID firmware that causes these crashes. FreeBSD being a marginal OS the BTX code just has a chance of triggering odd corner case being a 32bit loader. I haven't kept up with linux but last i checked they use a 16bit bootloader unless the distro has migrated to grub. (Remembering correctly GRUB also crashed on my setup like btx). Never tried booting windows on my setup. Please be aware of the following CVS commit, which was 4 months ago (look at the top 3 commits shown, for RELENG_[467] branches): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/Makefile -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
