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

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 05:59 -0700, Mike A wrote:
> Hi. I'm posting this bug report here at the suggestion of Andriy Gapon, 
> of the freebsd-amd64 list.
> 
> The machine is, as stated in the Subject header, a shiny new 
> 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
> "
> 
> after which the firmware reinitializes the system and the sequence starts
> over, totally repeatable.
> 
> The IBM literature says the RAID adapter is an IBM ServeRaid M5110e, the
> RAID configuration firmware calls it a MegaRaid, and FreeBSD identifies it
> as an LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter. I don't know what it really is, but it's
> getting in the way and not playing nicely.
> 
> I'd really like to add these to the stable, and particularly want to run
> them in 64-bit mode; 32-bit just isn't roomy enough. This isn't my first
> rodeo.
> 
> If this is an appropriate venue, then what do you need from me? What
> can I do to help get this set of problems solved? Or have I just got
> incompatible, unsupported hardware? If it's not the right venue, then a
> (flameless) pointer to the appropriate venue will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks, from
> 


Can you grab an 9.1-RC ISO and try that on this host?

Sean

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/