Thanks for the input! I greatly appreciate your time.
However, in a last ditch effort -- as you were typing and sending your
email --, I solved the problem. I was completely barking up the wrong tree
... sigh.
The issue was an old BIOS in the server. Once I updated the server BIOS,
the softraid
>> Or, is there a gdb method of booting the kernel?
Short answer:
http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/on-line-kernel-debugging-td335833.html
Long answer:
/dev/kmem (kmem(4)) could be used to access kernel memory.
gdb has special target (kvm) that uses it to debug bsd kernels (
Well I was able to get SR_DEBUG working with the attached diff.
I have tracked the hang down to the open device call on line 1038 `error =
VOP_OPEN(vn, FREAD, NOCRED, curproc);` in the sr_meta_native_bootprobe
function of /usr/src/sys/dev/softraid.c.
Now that I'm completely out of my depth, can
Sorry, I put the hang position in the wrong place on the first email:
scsibus6 at vscsi0: 256 targets <--- not here! sorry
softraid0 at root
scsibus7 at softraid0: 256 targets <- here is where the system hangs
when virtual drives are present
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Base Pr1me
Hello all,
I'm having virtual drive problems on a Dell 2900. When no virtual drives
are set up in the PERC 6/i controller, the server will not hang. However,
when there are virtual drives available on the system, it appears the
system is hanging at the probe stage -- I'm just guessing that's what
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