FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2 (i386) on Opteron?

[Kris Kennaway]

Mark Staudinger wrote:
> On 11/14/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org > wrote:
>> Mark Staudinger wrote:
>>> I wasn't sure if -questions or -current was the right group, but I
>> searched
>>> both before posting.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to begin testing FreeBSD-7.0-Beta2, and I have a mixture of
>> Intel
>>> and AMD-based machines that I work with.
>>> I'm using the i386 release.  I've previously used FreeBSD-4.9R and 6.2Rfor
>>> i386 on these machines, but cannot get
>>> 7.0-Beta2 to work on the AMD machines.  These are 100- and 1000-series
>>> dual-core Opteron CPUs.
>>>
>>> I've tried:
>>> Updating using source from 6.2-Release
>>> Installing from 7.0-Beta2 CD
>>> Installing from 7.0-CURRENT-200710-i386 snapshot CD
>>>
>>> I see a variety of errors, including:
>>>
>>> 1) BTX Halted
>>>
>>> 2) errors when running /bin/sh from /etc/rc
>>>        /libexec/ld-elf.so.1  Undefined symbol "opterr" referenced from
>> COPY
>>> relocation in sh
>>>        /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 Invalid file format (on multiple binaries)
>>>        various other "undefined symbol" messages
>>>        signal 10, signal 11 on multiple binaries
>> Sounds like you might have a corrupted installation.  Did you verify the
>> MD5 checksum on the ISO images?
>>
>>> Has anyone successfully used 7.0-Beta2 for i386 on AMD Opteron-based
>>> platform?  Any suggestions for tracking
>>> down the problem?
>> Yes, it works on mine.
>>
>> Kris
>>
>>
> I just compared the md5 sum and they match.  Considering that I used 2
> different CD sources,
> as well as a source update, all with similar results, it would seem unlikely
> that a corrupted file/image
> could be at fault.  And of course, the same hard CD can be used to install
> to an Intel-based machine
> with no failures.
> 
> I've tried 3 different MB/ CPU combinations.  All are Supermicro-branded,
> and all have the HT1000
> ServerWorks chipset.  I've just found Jeff Robertson's post:
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071109114636.Y639
> 
> Perhaps he can confirm the behavior.  In the meantime I will try the patch
> posted by John Baldwin
> yesterday on -current, and test that with both IDE and MMIO modes.

Yes, that sounds likely.  Thanks for trying the patch.

Kris