amd64/144503: 8.0-RELEASE does not boot on DL585

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/144503; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Cc: Gunther Schadow <gunther at schadow.us>,
 freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/144503: 8.0-RELEASE does not boot on DL585
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:59:23 -0500

 On Friday 05 March 2010 10:10:11 pm Gunther Schadow wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         144503
 > >Category:       amd64
 > >Synopsis:       8.0-RELEASE does not boot on DL585
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 06 03:20:01 UTC 2010
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Gunther Schadow
 > >Release:        8.0-RELEASE
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > 8.0-RELEASE
 > GENERIC
 > amd64
 > 
 > >Description:
 > System does not boot, neither from freebsd-upgrade nor from boot CD. 
 > With or without ACPI or APIC it always gets stuck at the line where 
 > the pci0 <PCI bus> is being probed.
 > 
 > I am running 7.0 just fine. Skipped over 7.1 and 7.2 thought 8.0 was 
 > time to upgrade, but it does not boot.
 > 
 > Not sure if there are any other people with DL585s, I have 3 (more 
 > actually) and neither of them boots.
 > 
 > May be 32 GB of RAM is too much for it? Nothing else special. 
 > There is QLogic ISP card in the PCI bus, but can that halt it?
 > 
 > I tried to boot with verbose mode, but not much comes out of that.
 > It just gets stuck.
 
 Can you try setting 'hw.pci.mcfg=0' from the loader prompt?
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin