Re: port-i386/38220: NetBSD 4.0 REL (LARGE_INSTALL) won't boot properly on HP proliant DL380 G3 (3.20 GHz uni)

[Carl Brewer <carl%bl.echidna.id.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/38220; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Carl Brewer <carl%bl.echidna.id.au@localhost>
To: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>, 
gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/38220: NetBSD 4.0 REL (LARGE_INSTALL) won't boot properly
 on HP proliant DL380 G3 (3.20 GHz uni)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:31:30 +1000

 Andrew Doran wrote:
 > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:21:50AM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
 >> Carl Brewer wrote:
 >>> Jared D. McNeill wrote:
 >>>> Carl Brewer wrote:
 >>>>> Has this been fixed at all in any more recent versions? (at all?)
 >>>>> I have a proliant ML350 G3 that is showing the same symptom, boot 
 >>>>> hanging at the same time.
 >>>>>
 >>>>> I'm downloading some newer ISO's to see if they fix it, but that's a 
 >>>>> bit of a random brute-force approach!
 >>>> I fixed a similar issue recently I think on a DL360 -- you might want 
 >>>> to give -current a try.
 >>> I'm trying to pull down a nightly build iso of 4-0 at the moment, should 
 >>> I abort the download and grab -current instead?
 >> Yeah, the following should do the trick:
 >>
 >> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200805080002Z/i386/installation/cdrom/boot.iso
 > 
 > Agreed, it shouldn't be a problem on -current (hopefully). I guess the
 > work-around for 4.0 is to run with an SMP kernel.
 
 It works fine with -current (apart from appallingly slow write 
 performance, but I think that's the proliant's HW RAID controller ...)