kern/136327: [sbp] [boot] Asus M3N78-EM motherboard cannot boot with generic kernel.

[Chris Whitehouse]

The following reply was made to PR kern/136327; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com>
To: Sean Bruno <seanbru at yahoo-inc.com>
Cc: "sbruno at FreeBSD.org" <sbruno at FreeBSD.org>, 
 "bug-followup at FreeBSD.org" <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: kern/136327: [sbp] [boot] Asus M3N78-EM motherboard cannot boot
 with generic kernel.
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:16:57 +0000

 On 13/11/2011 17:16, Sean Bruno wrote:
 > On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 15:48 -0800, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
 >> On 12/11/2011 20:34, Sean Bruno wrote:
 >>> Can you put this machine up somewhere that I can get into it and have
 >>> root access?
 >>>
 >>> This is a long standing issue with firewire that I'd like to fix if
 >>> possible.
 >>>
 >>> Sean
 >>>
 >>>
 >> I should be able to but I need to check as I don't own my internet
 >> connection. Also I need to set up a fresh install but that won't take long.
 >>
 >> How would we arrange restarts since the machine needs to be physically
 >> turned off and turned on again after a hang and we are in different time
 >> zones? Best I can imagine is you would have to email me and I do it as
 >> soon as I receive it, which could be a while. Or would you be able to
 >> avoid restarts?
 >>
 >> Chris
 >
 > Well, I was going to try and use a kernel without sbp and load sbp as a
 > kmod.  I had hoped that I could get a serial console on it as well, but
 > I'd like to see what the machine is like first.
 >
 > Sean
 >
 >
 Hi,
 
 should be up now, I'm sending details offlist.
 
 Firewire is enabled in BIOS and I rebuilt the kernel with device sbp 
 disabled.
 
 #kldload sbp
 seems to work, as in it loads and doesn't crash the machine but I don't 
 have any devices to hand to test further than that.
 
 Chris