Hi,
I've again encountered the problem of FreeBSD 7 not wanting to boot on a

HP server. The last time was early in 7.x development on a HP blade

(2xdual-core Opteron), without any solution (reported on this list about

a year ago). This time it's on a ML 350 G5 machine, with a quad-core Xeon=

=2E
The problem is very hard to diagnose - the entire machine locks up

during pci bus/device detection - the kernel debugger doesn't work, the

keyboard lights (PS/2 keyboard) don't work, it's completely frozen.
This is on both i386 and AMD64 kernels.
The machine freezes after detecting pcib6. The working 6.x kernel

detects upto pcib16, and the first device detected after pcib6 is the

CISS controller, so maybe it's the controller driver, but the first

machine (the blade) didn't have CISS controllers.
Any ideas?

FYI, I'm not seeing anything like this on the two DL 145 boxes I'm using for

10gbps testing with 7.x / 8.x.  I did have problems with at least a couple of

the BIOS revs in the past, so I'd repeat the advice offered elsewhere in the

thread and make sure that it's up-to-date.  There was one BIOS rev where I

couldn't use a boot loader cross-built from i386 to amd64, but both the i386

boot loader and the natively built amd64 boot loader worked fine.  The BIOS

upgrade made the problem entirely go away, go figure...
Otherwise, you're probably down to the printf model for debugging, unless you

have an NMI button that can get into DDB?  Mine have NMI buttons on the

botherboard, I believe, but it requires opening the case to get to.
Robert N M Watson

Computer Laboratory

University of Cambridge

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You can generate NMI from the iLO and iLO2 interface.
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Hi!
It is possible to invoke an NMI through the Intregrated LightsOut

management system that is built into the server.
Look under Diagnostics when you get into the iLO system.
Kind regards
Morten Strårup
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Thanks for the ideas, Robert and Morten - I'll try them. The reason I=20

thought it was something well known/common was that this is the second=20

HP system I tried 7.0 on (very different from each other) and both of=20

them failed in what looks as the same place :( It might just be bad luck.=
I have the machine on my desk so any other hardware-related ideas are=20

also welcome.

Hi Ivan,
I don't have a ML 350 G5 machine at hand, but fwiw I do have a HP BL465c G1

blade. It's a 2 dual core AMD Opteron blade.

Right now it's running FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4. I'm running make world right now

to get a recent RELENG_7
Meanwhile:

[root@marian46-23] <~>uname -a

         [12:01:36 on 08-02-18]

FreeBSD marian46-23 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Tue Dec 18 12:07:27 CET

2007     root@marian46-23:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOBILE  amd64
dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.

Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994

        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Tue Dec 18 12:07:27 CET 2007

    root@marian46-23:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOBILE

Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0

CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 (2600.11-MHz K8-class CPU)

  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x40f13  Stepping = 3
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>

  Features2=0x2001<SSE3,CX16>

  AMD Features=0xea500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>

  AMD Features2=0x1f<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8>

  Cores per package: 2

usable memory = 4280225792 (4081 MB)

avail memory  = 4118867968 (3928 MB)

ACPI APIC Table: <HP     00000083>

FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs

 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0

 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1

 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2

 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3

ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-15 on motherboard

ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 16-31 on motherboard

kbd1 at kbdmux0

ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)

hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Dec 18 2007 12:07:17)

acpi0: <HP A13> on motherboard

acpi0: [ITHREAD]

acpi0: Power Button (fixed)

Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3...
[ message continues ]

Hi Ivan,
Try building a kernel with VERBOSE_SYSINIT option in it - you'll see

which functions it's calling, and you can use this to see where it gets

stuck.
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Ivan, good day.
I have a couple of BL640c and older BL<something>p running 7.0 --

no problems encountered.  While this is not the direct answer to

your question, had you tried to update the blade firmware to the

latest versions with Firmware Maintenance CD?  Sometimes it helps...

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Thanks for the suggestion, but the blade server is deployed now and will =
stay with 6.x until there's a reason to move.

Ivan,
But you can try to update firmware images on the ML350.  Firmware

Maintenance CD 7.91 supports this beast:

  http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=...

  http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp...

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Updating the firmware didn't help. I generated a NMI and have the

debugger running. Apparently it's stuck in DELAY; the trace (transcribed

by hand) is:
DELAY()

vpd_nextbyte()

pci_read_device()

pci_add_children()

acpi_pci_attach()

device_attach()

bus_generic_attach()

acpi_pcib_attach()

acpi_pcib_pci_attach()

device_attach()

bus_generic_attach()

=2E..
this stack goes on... note repetition of device_attach in the stack,

it's repeated at least three more times. I don't know if this is normal.
Any suggestion what to do while in the debugger?

Hmm, new data! It works on 8-CURRENT!
Something's fishy here. I'll try and investigate more, but if anyone has

more ideas about where to look, I'd appreciate them - I don't want to

run a -CURRENT system in production.

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Would you please try to see if the latest snapshot, say, a RC3 image

would work?  IIRC there was a known issue with ciss(4) which is widely

used on HP servers in RC2, which was fixed (new code disabled by

default) now.
Cheers,

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FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!

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I cannot find RC3 images on

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ but

booting a RELENG_7 kernel works (!) so your it looks like you have

found the problem!