Bug Report: IBM x3650M4 (32GB, 2x4-core Xeon E5-2600, IBM ServeRaid M5110e): fails in install with NMI

[Mike A]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:34:14AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday, August 27, 2012 4:38:17 pm Mike A wrote:
> > IBM x3650M4 (32GB, 2x4-core Xeon E5-2600, IBM ServeRaid M5110e)
> > 
> > I just got handed 4 of the subject boxes with instructions "put 'em to
> > work". Naturally I tried FreeBSD first, on one of the machines. Boot from
> > the 9.0 AMD64 boot-only install CD fails. Things look fine until the last
> > several lines of the (verbose enabled) boot sequence, which (from an
> > insufficiently-wide phone camera capture) are:
> > 
> > "
> > mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0x3000-0x[lost off right edge of 
> phone]
> > xc5d00000-0xc5deffff irq 34 at device 0.0 on pci[lost]
> > mpt0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 su[lost]
> > msi: routing MSI IRQ 256 to local APIC 0 vector [lost]
> > mpt0: using IRQ 256 for MSI
> > mpt0: soft reset failed, device not running
> > NMI ISA 2c, EISA 0
> > NMI ... going to debugger
> > mpt0: hard reset failed
> > "
> 
> Does setting 'hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=0' in the loader make a difference?

Thanks VERY MUCH (and come collect your steak dinner at Cattlemen's Cafe in
OKC, next time you're in the area) for the very quick response. 

I will be happy to try that, but need guidance. This is an install from
CD (burned from FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso), and I don't know how to
insert a loader hint in that process.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin