Re: Installing on zx6000

Mike Burrell <[email protected]> wrote
  in <[email protected]>:

mi> On 12-06-22 02:59 PM, Émeric Maschino wrote:
mi> > Hi,
mi> > 
mi> > Same problem here. I didn't get an answer when reported back in May
mi> > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2012-May/003236.html).
mi> > My zx6000 has the latest firmware. From what I understand, this issue
mi> > is specific to Madison CPUs.
mi> 
mi> It's not clear to me whether this is the same issue (or whether the
mi> thinks you linked to are all the same issue), though it definitely could
mi> be. In the post I made in January I mentioned that I'd successfully
mi> installed other things (specifically Debian and HP-UX) without any
mi> problems at all, so I'm inclined to believe this is a problem with
mi> either FreeBSD's GENERIC kernel or FreeBSD's EFI loader.
mi> 
mi> Mostly my frustration at this point is trying to determine whether this
mi> is a known issue or not.
mi> 
mi> I guess I'll have to live with Debian for a while....

 Can you try to reset the EFI configuration to the factory default?
 After installing non-FreeBSD OSs such as HP-UX or Linux, some
 configurations which prevent FreeBSD from working may be added.

 I am using a zx6000 with the following CPUs for a long time:

 CPU 0 present and active
  Vendor  = "GenuineIntel"
  Serial# = 0002eaeb35795acf
  Version = 0x001f010504 (B1 Madison)
 CPU 1 present and active
  Vendor  = "GenuineIntel"
  Serial# = 0002be5b6e50a43b
  Version = 0x001f010504 (B1 Madison)

 I experienced a similar boot failure on a new box where Linux was
 installed long time ago.  At that time resetting all of EFI
 configuration to the factory default solved the issue.  A boot log of
 a running box is something like this:

----
 Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xe000000004090000...
 GDB: debug ports: uart
 GDB: current port: uart
 KDB: debugger backends: ddb gdb
 KDB: current backend: ddb
 Copyright (c) 1992-2011 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 8.2-STABLE #0: Mon Aug  8 03:42:11 JST 2011
     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IA64 ia64
 CPU: Madison (1500 Mhz Itanium 2)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Revision = 5
   Features = 0x1<LB>
 real memory  = 25748930560 (24556 MB)
 avail memory = 25236807680 (24067 MB)
 FPSWA Revision = 0x10012, Entry = 0xe0000040ffe62050
 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
----

-- Hiroki

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