amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0

[Peter Jeremy]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/122624; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>
To: Fernan Aguero <fernan at iib.unsam.edu.ar>
Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org,
        freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:32:11 +1000

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 On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:06:32PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
 >This time I was able to login and check libcrypto:
 >MD5 (/lib/libcrypto.so.5) =3D ee943528c8046145b60359f50f45fbf4
 >
 >And as suggested by Gavin, I rebooted and checked things
 >again.
 >
 >Upon reboot, the error was now different (relocation type changed),
 >and the checksum for libcrypto.so.5 changed!
 >MD5 (/lib/libcrypto.so.5) =3D a24993818d2b888df053428b48a18eac
 =2E..
 >Maybe it's a problem with the disk driver in FreeBSD-7 for
 >this chipset? (dmesg attached) ... it seems like reading and
 >writing to disk is the problem ... but this only happens
 >with FreeBSD-7.0. Any suggestion as to how I can further debug this?
 =2E..
 >atapci0: <ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150 controller> port 0xecb0-0xecb7,0xeca0=
 -0xeca3,0xecb8-0xecbf,0xeca4-0xeca7,0xece0-0xecef mem 0xefdfe000-0xefdfffff=
  irq 6 at device 14.0 on pci3
 
 There are a number of threads in -current discussing the brokenness of
 that chipset.  The impression I get is that 7.0-RELEASE will never work
 for you but there are some fixes in 7.0 post -RELEASE.  A sample is:
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084272.html
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084075.html
 
 --=20
 Peter Jeremy
 Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
 an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
 
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