freebsd stable - Apr 2009 - poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

Hello All,

I encountered the same problem as reported to this list earlier,
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-February/048305.html, 
but then with 7.1-RELEASE-p4.

Interestingly enough, FreeBSD booted fine on the machine installed 
(updated from 7.0 to 7.1-RELEASE-p4).
This machine is a PowerEdge 1850 bios A04 with Perc 43/Si bios H430 / 
fwVer 521S.

When booting a drive from this machine in another PowerEdge 1850, bios 
A07 Perc 4e/Si bios H435 FwVer 5B2D
it drops to the can mount root prompt, similar as reported originally, 
see http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg.
By specifying the kern.cam.scsi_delay, as suggested in this thread, the 
problem is solved.

So there is a workaround, but I would prefer to see this fixed instead.
I can't find a problem report regarding this topic though so can't find 
the current status.

Does anybody know the current status?
I can test if this issue has been solved if needed. I need to know then 
what to test of course... 7.1-STABLE or 7.2 BETA1 etc...

Regards,
Jeroen

The just-released 7.2-RC2 should fix this problem.  Please let me
know ASAP if it works for you.

Scott


Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I encountered the same problem as reported to this list earlier,
>
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-February/048305.html,
> but then with 7.1-RELEASE-p4.
> 
> Interestingly enough, FreeBSD booted fine on the machine installed 
> (updated from 7.0 to 7.1-RELEASE-p4).
> This machine is a PowerEdge 1850 bios A04 with Perc 43/Si bios H430 / 
> fwVer 521S.
> 
> When booting a drive from this machine in another PowerEdge 1850, bios 
> A07 Perc 4e/Si bios H435 FwVer 5B2D
> it drops to the can mount root prompt, similar as reported originally, 
> see http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg.
> By specifying the kern.cam.scsi_delay, as suggested in this thread, the 
> problem is solved.
> 
> So there is a workaround, but I would prefer to see this fixed instead.
> I can't find a problem report regarding this topic though so can't
find
> the current status.
> 
> Does anybody know the current status?
> I can test if this issue has been solved if needed. I need to know then 
> what to test of course... 7.1-STABLE or 7.2 BETA1 etc...
> 
> Regards,
> Jeroen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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I did the following to verify:

1) Installed 7.2-RC2 on the Perc 4e/Si H430 machine (RAID1), this went fine.
2) Turned off, and placed one drive in the machine with Perc 4e/Si H435,
boot went fine and no long delays after amr0....

So the problem as I encountered with 7.1-RELEASE-p4 is not present in 
7.2-RC2.

There are some messages about GEOM_LABEL and GEOM_LABEL: Label .... removed,
which I haven't seen before. If they are of any interest let me know.

Regards,
Jeroen

p.s. I copied the subject from the original thread. I haven't attempt to 
install 7.1-RELEASE myself. If it is of any additional value, I can try to 
install the 7.1- RELEASE directly to verify if it fails.


Scott Long wrote:
> The just-released 7.2-RC2 should fix this problem.  Please let me
> know ASAP if it works for you.
>
> Scott
>
>> Interestingly enough, FreeBSD booted fine on the machine installed 
>> (updated from 7.0 to 7.1-RELEASE-p4).
>> This machine is a PowerEdge 1850 bios A04 with Perc 4*e*/Si bios H430 
>> / fwVer 521S.
>>
>> When booting a drive from this machine in another PowerEdge 1850, 
>> bios A07 Perc 4e/Si bios H435 FwVer 5B2D
>> it drops to the mount root prompt...