On Thursday, April 17, 2014 6:37:09 am Claude Buisson wrote:
> On 04/16/2014 19:06, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:54:20 am Claude Buisson wrote:
> >> On 04/16/2014 16:38, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 5:41:44 am Claude Buisson wrote:
> >>>> On 04/16/2014 10:09, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:44+0200, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:38+0200, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I have a couple of uncritical systems running stable/8 r258344.
> >>>>>>> Hardware is Dell OptiPlex GX260, BIOS A09, which is the latest re=
v.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The r264339 GENERIC kernel are unable to mount the root fs from t=
he
> >>>>>>> hard drive using MBR, FreeBSD slice, and UFS volume labels.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> r258344 obviously can.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I even tried regular device names like /dev/ad0s1a in /etc/fstab, =
and
> >>>>>>> at the mountroot> prompt, i.e. ufs:/dev/ad0s1a. The kernel still
> >>>>>>> cannot mount the root fs.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The new kernel (r264339) does recognize the ad0 harddrive, and ad=
0 =
is
> >>>>>>> listed as one of the GEOM managed disk devices; acd0 being the ot=
her
> >>>>>>> one.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Do I need to load additional geom modules, or is it a genuine bug?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I have recreated the same conditions on a spare GX260, yes, I have
> >>>>>>> plenty of them.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I believe I have identified r262226 as the offending commit.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Maybe the flags integer is set to a bad value before the calls to
> >>>>>> resource_list_alloc().
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> My spare system is currently recompiling r262221 of both world and
> >>>>>> kernel, and I hope to confirm this assumption in a few hours.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Confirmed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> If all goes well, I intend to move forward to the latest revision =
of
> >>>>>> stable/8, back out the change done to sys/dev/pci/pci.c in r262226,
> >>>>>> recompile world and kernel, install the kernel, and if successfull=
y,
> >>>>>> I'll install world as well.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Confirmed, stable/8 r264519 with r262226 backed out does indeed work
> >>>>> on a Dell OptiPlex GX260, BIOS A09.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Just another data point related to r262226:
> >>>>
> >>>> Yesterday, I upgraded a stable/8 system from r260539 to r264426, whi=
ch =
could not
> >>>> finish booting. In my case, it stopped just after detecting an agp c=
ard =
(and
> >>>> could boot if agp was disabled by device.hints).
> >>>>
> >>>> Reverting r262226 gave me back a fully usable system.
> >>>>
> >>>> This system is also a Dell, but a (oldish) Dimension 4550 BIOS A08.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Any chance anyone would like to dig deeper into the matter?
> >>>>> Should I file a PR?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I think so, if jhb (cced) keep being interested in stable/8..
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW, this morning I succeeded in booting a stable/10 snapshot r26419=
4 =
USB stick
> >>>> on this machine.
> >>>
> >>> Can you get a verbose dmesg with and without the change?
> >>>
> >>
> >> If r262226 is not reverted, the only way to boot and have a verbose dm=
esg =
is to
> >> disable agp. Is it OK ?
> >
> > Yes. Hmmmm. I may know what the problem is then. Can you kldload agp =
after
> > boot?
> >
> =
> Here we are:
> =
> verbose dmesg, kernel with agp, r262226 reverted =3D verbose.pci.c_revert=
ed
> =
> http://dl.free.fr/hp7ORcx71
> =
> pciconf with the same kernel =3D pciconf.pci.c_reverted
> =
> http://dl.free.fr/tSrfsnxhK
> =
> verbose dmesg, kernel without agp, not reverted =3D verbose.noagp
> =
> http://dl.free.fr/gejndPCDZ
None of these links work now. :(
> =
> With this kernel, kldloading agp.ko has for only effect to lock the syste=
m =
> (cannot switch vty, no answer to pings, ..) -> panic/power button.
That is unexpected. :(
-- =
John Baldwin
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