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, install-manager@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/37621: NetBSD 4.0 install iso fails to boot on IBM eServer
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:43:03 -0800 (PST)

 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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