Re: [Testbed-admins] GENERIC images not working on newer hardware

[Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com>]

Leigh,
     ok, after being gone awhile, I'm now getting back to this
problem... I compared /boot/kernel on boss to the one in the GENERIC
FBSD62 image and the only differences were  (Do these modules ring any
bells of known problems):

1. boss had coretemp.ko FBSD62image did not...
2. boss has hptrr.ko  and the FBSD62image had hptmv.ko instead

I've replace the /boot/kernel directory in the FBSD62image and am
waiting to see if that works to fix the kernel panic we were getting
on boot into the FBSD image...  I'll let you know.

I'm currently testing the FedoraCore 8 image you suggested, hopefully
that works (I'll know tomorrow).


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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Leigh Stoller<stoller@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
>> That sounds good.  I'll just copy the /boot/kernel directory from
>> boss or ops then, since those boot just fine (same hardware).  They
>> are FreeBSD 6.3, so that should work right.  I'll do that and then
>> see if we can get the image to boot.
>
> Hmm, in that case it sounds like a simple matter of taking the kernel
> source code from users.emulab.net/share/freebsd/6.3/src/sys and
> figuring out the difference between the kernel config file on your
> boss and the TESTBED* config files in src/sys/i386/conf. Find the
> missing driver(s) and you are set. :-)
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> Lbs
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