Re: NetBSD 4 won't boot on a xserve

Hi,

Here is the dmesg from the xserve:

NetBSD 2.1_STABLE (FAITH) #0: Sun Jun 17 20:44:49 MST 2007
        adminlisa.datazap.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/FAI
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total memory = 1024 MB
avail memory = 984 MB
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: 7455 (Revision 3.3), ID 0 (primary)
cpu0: HID0
8450c0bc<EMCP,TBEN,NAP,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,LRSTK,FOLD,BH
T>
cpu0: 1333.34 MHz, 256KB L2 cache, 2MB no-parity L3 cache
(DDR SRAM) at
6:1 ratio
uninorth0 at mainbus0
pci0 at uninorth0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
pchb0: Apple Computer UniNorth AGP Bridge (rev. 0x00)
bge0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: Broadcom BCM5703X Gigabit
Ethernet
bge0: interrupting at irq 48
bge0: ASIC BCM5703 A2 (0x1002), Ethernet address
00:03:93:f4:2d:8e
brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5703 1000BASE-T media interface,
rev. 2
brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseT,
1000baseT-FDX, auto
uninorth1 at mainbus0
pci1 at uninorth1 bus 0
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb1 at pci1 dev 11 function 0
pchb1: Apple Computer UniNorth Host-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x00)
ppb0 at pci1 dev 13 function 0: Intel S21152BA,S21154AE/BE
PCI to PCI
Bridge (rev. 0x00)
pci2 at ppb0 bus 1
pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled
obio0 at pci2 dev 7 function 0: addr 0x80000000
pwm at obio0 offset 0x30 not configured
zsc0 at obio0 offset 0x13000: irq 22,23
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
i2s at obio0 offset 0x10000 not configured
adb0 at obio0 offset 0x16000 irq 47: pm_adb_op: timeout.
command = 0x0
0 targets
aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
apm0 at adb0: battery flags 0x9, 0% charged
wdc0 at obio0 offset 0x1f000 irq 19: DMA transfer
atabus0 at wdc0 channel 0
ohci0 at pci2 dev 8 function 0: Apple Computer KeyLargo USB
Controller
(rev. 0x00)
ohci0: interrupting at irq 27
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Apple Computer OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev
1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ohci1 at pci2 dev 9 function 0: Apple Computer KeyLargo USB
Controller
(rev. 0x00)
ohci1: interrupting at irq 28
ohci1: OHCI version 1.0
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Apple Computer OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev
1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ppb1 at pci1 dev 17 function 0: Intel S21152BA,S21154AE/BE
PCI to PCI
Bridge (rev. 0x00)
pci3 at ppb1 bus 2
pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled
ofb0 at pci3 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon
7000/VE
ofb0: 800 x 600, 8bpp
wsdisplay0 at ofb0 kbdmux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
pdcide0 at pci1 dev 21 function 0
pdcide0: Promise Ultra133TX2v2/ATA Bus Master IDE
Accelerator (rev. 0x03)
pdcide0: bus-master DMA support present
pdcide0: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
pdcide0: using irq 58 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus1 at pdcide0 channel 0
pdcide0: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
atabus2 at pdcide0 channel 1
pdcide1 at pci1 dev 27 function 0
pdcide1: Promise Ultra133TX2v2/ATA Bus Master IDE
Accelerator (rev. 0x03)
pdcide1: bus-master DMA support present
pdcide1: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
pdcide1: using irq 63 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus3 at pdcide1 channel 0
pdcide1: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
atabus4 at pdcide1 channel 1
uninorth2 at mainbus0
pci4 at uninorth2 bus 0
pci4: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb2 at pci4 dev 11 function 0
pchb2: Apple Computer UniNorth Host-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x00)
wdc1 at pci4 dev 13 function 0: cannot find gmac node
fwohci0 at pci4 dev 14 function 0: Apple Computer UniNorth
Firewire (rev.
0x01)
fwohci0: interrupting at irq 40
fwohci0: OHCI 1.1, 00:0a:95:ff:fe:6d:c7:48, 800Mb/s, 4096
max_rec, 8
ir_ctx, 8 it_ctx
gem0 at pci4 dev 15 function 0: Apple Computer GMAC Ethernet
(rev. 0x00)
gem0: interrupting at irq 41
gem0: Ethernet address 00:0a:95:6d:c7:48, 10KB RX fifo, 4KB
TX fifo
brgphy1 at gem0 phy 0: BCM5421 1000BASE-T media interface,
rev. 1
brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseT,
1000baseT-FDX, auto
pdcide0:0: bogus intr
fw0 at fwohci0:
00:0a:95:ff:fe:6d:c7:48:0b:03:ff:ff:f0:01:00:00
atapibus0 at atabus0: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <QSI CD-ROM TCR-241, , WL09>
cdrom removable
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
cd0(wdc0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
transfers)
uhub2 at uhub0 port 1
uhub2: ALCOR macally Kbd Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr
2
uhub2: 3 ports with 2 removable, bus powered
uhidev0 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: ALCOR macally Kbd Hub, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3,
iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
wd0 at atabus1 drive 0: <Maxtor 6L250R0>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48
addressing
wd0: 233 GB, 486344 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x
490234752
sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6
(Ultra/133)
wd0(pdcide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
(Ultra/133) (using
DMA data transfers)
wd1 at atabus2 drive 0: <Maxtor 7L250R0>
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48
addressing
wd1: 233 GB, 486344 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x
490234752
sectors
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6
(Ultra/133)
wd1(pdcide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6
(Ultra/133) (using
DMA data transfers)
boot device: <unknown>
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b

But there is a problem, it doesn't write the dmesg from a 4
kernel boot.
In fact, everything from the dmesg is gone. It fails shortly
after there
is alot of video info, when it starts to config PCI things I
think.
getting an interrupt, that it says is wrong.  Unfortunately,
it happens so
fast that I can't completely read it.

I think that the kernel that Andy has built for me was
current. Could you
build a kernel on one of your servers that has an older
NetBSD 4 source?
Maybe the problem is very recent. The kernel will need to
have wd0a for
root and filesystem ffs. If this works, then I can get this
server to the
colo hopefully before one of the drives in lisa fails
completely.

Thanks,
Al


On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, John Klos wrote:

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:38:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: John Klos <johnziaspace.com>
> To: DataZap <azdatazap.net>
> Cc: port-macppcNetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: NetBSD 4 won't boot on a xserve
>
> > I did an install of NetBSD 2.0.2, because that is
the cd that I just
> > happen to have, but I could not boot the 2.0.2
kernel, because of the fact
> > that it couldn't find the root device. I compiled
a 2.1 kernel on my G3
> > with root at wd0a (2.1 is what is running on that
computer) and installed
> > it. It booted! I thought at this point I had all
my problems solved. I
> > thought would copy a 4.0 kernel (with root at
wd0a) to / and upgrade to
> > 4.0. But NetBSD 4.0 doesn't seem, to run on this
machine.
>
> Post dmesg outputs of the working 2.1 kernel and as far
as the 4.0 kernel
> gets.
>
> John
>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:55:08AM -0700, DataZap wrote:
> But there is a problem, it doesn't write the dmesg from
a 4 kernel boot.
> In fact, everything from the dmesg is gone. It fails
shortly after there
> is alot of video info, when it starts to config PCI
things I think.
> getting an interrupt, that it says is wrong. 
Unfortunately, it happens so
> fast that I can't completely read it.
> 
> I think that the kernel that Andy has built for me was
current.

Did -current do any better?

It sounds like the video / Radeon changes might be a culprit
since
that's one area that's changed fairly recently.

-allen

-- 
Allen Briggs  |  http://www.ninthw
onder.com/~briggs/  |  briggsninthwonder.com

> total memory = 1024 MB

Memory's cheap. It'll take 2 gigs, you know.

> But there is a problem, it doesn't write the dmesg from
a 4 kernel boot.
> In fact, everything from the dmesg is gone. It fails
shortly after there
> is alot of video info, when it starts to config PCI
things I think.
> getting an interrupt, that it says is wrong. 
Unfortunately, it happens so
> fast that I can't completely read it.

Is it safe to assume that you can use the serial console?
That would skip 
the video problem, and you can obviously copy and paste from
the machine 
that's connected to the serial.

> I think that the kernel that Andy has built for me was
current. Could you
> build a kernel on one of your servers that has an older
NetBSD 4 source?
> Maybe the problem is very recent. The kernel will need
to have wd0a for
> root and filesystem ffs. If this works, then I can get
this server to the
> colo hopefully before one of the drives in lisa fails
completely.

Sure. I've built two. The first is netbsd-4 with root set to
wd0a:

http://www.ziasp
ace.com/~john/XSERVE

The second is also from netbsd-4 with root set to wd0a, but
with the 
Radeon stuff commented out:

http://
www.ziaspace.com/~john/XSERVE_noradeon

Good luck,
John