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

[Gary Palmer]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:50:15AM -0500, Mike A wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Fabian Wenk wrote:
> > Hello Mike
> > 
> > On 28.08.2012 16:05, Mike A wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:34:14AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>  Does setting 'hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=0' in the loader make a difference?
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > On the installed system create, or edit, the file 
> > /boot/loader.conf and add the line like this:
> > 
> > hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="0"
> > 
> > Then you need to reboot to test.
> 
> I would happily do precisely that, if only I could get the system to
> install. The failure occurs during boot of the install CDROM, before
> bsdinstall ever gets started. 
> 
> I suspect that I need to do something like the following: 
> 
> Read in the entire boot CDROM to a directory tree using rsync or
> equivalent; 
> 
> Edit the boot loader hints file to add that hint; 
> 
> Make an ISO out of the directory tree; 
> 
> Burn it to CDROM; and
> 
> Try again. 
> 
> If this is flawed, please say where and how. Thanks!

When you boot from the CD you should get to a menu and option 2 is escape to
the loader prompt.  If you use that to get the prompt you should be
able to do

set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="0"

to set the hint manually then do

boot

to continue the boot process

Regards,

Gary