freebsd stable - Aug 2005 - loader(8) crashing in 5.4, 5.3 loader works Dell Poweredge SC1425 nocona

I have a Dell Poweredge SC1425 server. I am
running FreeBSD AMD64.

I have been running 5.3-R on this machine since
Feburary.  I decided to go ahead and upgrade
to 5.4.

installkernel - OK
reboot - OK
mergemaster -p OK
installworld - OK
mergemaster - OK...
reboot again

CRASH... loader crashes with BTX Halted and
instant reboot. Cannot read register
dump because it disappears too fast.

If I intercept boot with the spacebar right
after hitting F1, and type in /boot/loader.old
to get the 5.3 loader.... it works.

I have since cvsupped to 5.4-p6 and rebuilt,
with the same results - loader crashes.

The system is working with the 5.3 loader copied
over to /boot/loader.  I would like to not
have to worry about this the next time I
upgrade.

Ideas appreciated.


Joe Koberg
Open Software Services, LLC
joe at osoft dot us




dmesg:

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        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 #0: Fri Aug  5 02:35:53 CDT 2005
    joe@fab.cei.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AFBSMP
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2800.12-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x641d<SSE3,RSVD2>,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
real memory  = 5100273664 (4864 MB)
avail memory = 4122259456 (3931 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PESC1425>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  6
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 7
ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 8
ioapic1: WARNING: intbase 32 != expected base 24
ioapic2: Changing APIC ID to 9
ioapic2: WARNING: intbase 64 != expected base 56
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 32-55 on motherboard
ioapic2 <Version 2.0> irqs 64-87 on motherboard
acpi0: <DELL PESC1425> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci1
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.35> port 
0xecc0-0xecff mem 0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff irq 32 at device 4.0 on pci2
em0: Ethernet address: 00:11:43:fd:4d:2b
em0:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
pci1: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 0.1 (no driver 
attached)
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.2 on pci1
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
pci1: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 0.3 (no driver 
attached)
uhci0: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A> port 0xcce0-0xccff 
irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B> port 0xccc0-0xccdf 
irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0
usb1: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.35> port 
0xdcc0-0xdcff mem 0xdf9e0000-0xdf9fffff irq 20 at device 3.0 on pci4
em1: Ethernet address: 00:11:43:fd:4d:2c
em1:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
pci4: <display, VGA> at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller> port 
0xfc00-0xfc0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
atapci1: <Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller> port 
0xcc80-0xcc8f,0xcc98-0xcc9b,0xcca0-0xcca7,0xccb0-0xccb3,0xccb8-0xccbf 
irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0
ata2: channel #0 on atapci1
ata3: channel #1 on atapci1
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on 
acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xec000-0xeffff,0xc0000-0xcafff on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding disabled, 
default to accept, logging unlimited
ad4: 76293MB <ST380013AS/8.12> [155009/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150
ad6: 76293MB <ST380013AS/8.12> [155009/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/gvinum/m_root
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /www was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /svn was not properly dismounted
em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex








make.conf:

CFLAGS=-O -pipe
MAKE_IDEA=YES
NOPROFILE=true
# added by use.perl 2005-02-11 14:33:12
PERL_VER=5.8.6
PERL_VERSION=5.8.6
CPUTYPE=nocona




-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  245760 Aug  5 02:39 loader
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  241664 Aug  5 02:43 loader.new.notworking2
MD5 (loader) = c6089e00ed780e4f0d4db6a52bd1dbbf
MD5 (loader.new.notworking2) = 2fcf8e42d690a1d5be381169ac95ce2f

On 8/6/05, Joe Koberg <joe@osoft.us> wrote:
> make.conf:
> 
:
> CPUTYPE=nocona
> 
Try building the loader without the CPUTYPE set, there were some
problems caused by this setting with the loader.  There was someone
working on this problem on the -CURRENT, and possibly the -STABLE
tree.  Not sure if it had been back ported to the -RELEASE tree.

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