Manuel, Pavel,

Thanks for your replies.  I had to resort to booting via floppy with
serial console, but things are now clear.

The GENERIC.NOACPI kernel does indeed boot on this server.
The normal GENERIC kernel does not, yielding the SCSI card
state dump we discussed earlier.  Also, disabling ACPI at the
UC> prompt during boot works as well.  If there was a way to
make this setting persistent across boots, it would be very
convenient.  I have seen some proposals of how this might be
done in NetBSD in the future, but for now it's not an option for
my server environment -- the machines need to reboot without
human intervension.

Given that ACPI is now the default, but was not the default for
3.1 as Manuel points out, you might be seeing an increase in 
observations of this type.

Finally, although GENERIC.NOACPI is working for me, what I
really need is something like

    GENERIC.MP.NOACPI

because my server is a dual-processor machine.  Do you think
that such a kernel might be included in future distributions?  Is
there a site I can download such a kernel from, even if it is
experimental or unofficial?

Thanks and regards, Rich


----- Original Message ----
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: install-manager@netbsd.org; gnats-admin@netbsd.org; netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org; rmabbot@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:45:02 PM
Subject: Re: install/37621: NetBSD 4.0 install iso fails to boot on IBM eServer


The following reply was made to PR install/37621; it has been noted by
 GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: install-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
    netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, rmabbot@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: install/37621: NetBSD 4.0 install iso fails to boot on IBM
 eServer
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:23:22 +0100

 On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:05:03PM +0000, Richard Abbot wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR install/37621; it has been noted
 by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Richard Abbot <rmabbot@yahoo.com>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: install/37621: NetBSD 4.0 install iso fails to boot on
 IBM eServer
 > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:00:40 -0800 (PST)
 > 
 >  OK Pavel, I will try that.
 >  
 >  I don't recall having to disable ACPI for the 3.1 distribution.
 
 In 3.1, ACPI was not enabled by defaut, you had to build a custom
 kernel to
 use it.
 
 -- 
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
 --
 





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