Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:50, patrick wrote: I had the same symptones with a Supermicro 5014C-T (has P8SCi board) I 'fixed' this by adding autoboot_delay=-1 in /boot/loader.conf. since then it boots normaly I have tried this but it doesn't fix it here :( I've emailed Supermicro but I dunno how long it will take them to get back to me. I'm also not really sure how this can be debugged since the computer locks up solid :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpjDy2DzLQz7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
On Friday 13 April 2007 16:17, patrick wrote: Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into single user mode (or whatever). that is depending on the situation you are in. there are more ways to get in 'other boot modes' then using the bootloader on the disk. Hmm.. How can you get to (say) single user mode, or load an old kernel? They're the really critical things I use the loader for (usually in desperate circumstances :) I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic task and hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time. Also note I have also exactly the same system (second one) which has no problems at all. Yeah it seems to affect our systems unevenly too, although they are putatively identical.. I never had the time to pull them apart to find out what the diff is which causing this issue. phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgp0FsRmPOPkd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
On Saturday 14 April 2007 10:36, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 16:17, patrick wrote: Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into single user mode (or whatever). that is depending on the situation you are in. there are more ways to get in 'other boot modes' then using the bootloader on the disk. Hmm.. How can you get to (say) single user mode, or load an old kernel? They're the really critical things I use the loader for (usually in desperate circumstances :) Press any key to gain boot prompt while system is loading- look at loader messages. From appeared boot prompt type: boot -s Or if you want other kernel: #unload kernel #load kernel.old #boot I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic task and hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time. Also note I have also exactly the same system (second one) which has no problems at all. Yeah it seems to affect our systems unevenly too, although they are putatively identical.. I never had the time to pull them apart to find out what the diff is which causing this issue. phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) I got almost identical board P8SCi and have no problems running FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2, 7-CURRENT. Maybe you should look at supermicro site and upgrade bios. I think this is ACPI problem. You can disable ACPI temporarily at the boot loader prompt by issueing unset acpi_load if you are having problems booting an ACPI enabled machine. If you want to disable ACPI simply add hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to /boot/device.hints. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:55, Andrei Kolu wrote: Press any key to gain boot prompt while system is loading- look at loader messages. From appeared boot prompt type: boot -s I was under the impression that if you set the autoboot delay to 0 (or -1) then you won't be able to get to the loader prompt at all. I must admit I haven't tested it though. phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) I got almost identical board P8SCi and have no problems running FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2, 7-CURRENT. Maybe you should look at supermicro site and upgrade bios. I think this is ACPI problem. You can disable ACPI temporarily at the boot loader prompt by issueing unset acpi_load if you are having problems booting an ACPI enabled machine. The loader doesn't use ACPI so while it may be related to ACPI the command you suggest won't have an effect. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpUq4WO1MOcu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:50, patrick wrote: I had the same symptones with a Supermicro 5014C-T (has P8SCi board) I 'fixed' this by adding autoboot_delay=-1 in /boot/loader.conf. since then it boots normaly Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into single user mode (or whatever). I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic task and hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgphZ8FOdIJIP.pgp Description: PGP signature
6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
I am seeing the loader hang during a normal boot (but not when booting from the install CD). I can work around it by shortening the boot delay to around 1 second. If it is any longer the count time timer stops and is is unresponsive to any input except the reset switch. Also, if I break into the loader prompt in time I can then do things as normal.. very odd! Does anyone know of a proper fix for it? This work around is very kludgy :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpEpgyKQTT2r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
On Friday 13 April 2007 12:37, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Also, if I break into the loader prompt in time I can then do things as normal.. very odd! Does anyone know of a proper fix for it? This work around is very kludgy :( I think this is the same as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93762 Unfortunately I can't see a solution :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpMY4hWXAvWp.pgp Description: PGP signature
