On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:11:18 +0100, Henning Brauer wrote > * Alexander Polakov <polac...@gmail.com> [2011-12-30 09:11]: > > * listmail <listm...@entertech.com> [111230 08:52]: > > > Back in June of 2011, I reported problems with the Supermicro P8SCI and P8SCT > > > motherboards failing to boot OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9, due to a kernel page > > > fault > > > trap at interdrm_attach. Just for fun, I tried OpenBSD 5.0 tonight, and > > > the > > > same problem still happens. > > > > > Have you tried > > > > boot -c > > disable inteldrm > > > > If it works, use config -ef /bsd to make it permanent. > > no, don't do that. that just stupidly hides the bug and pretty much > makes sure it won't get fixed (unless someone else runs into it too > and doesn't pick stupid workarounds). > > this however IS useful to (mostly) verify inteldrm itself is to blame. > Thanks to Alexander and Henning for the suggestions. By disabling inteldrm at boot time, I was able to get one of the Supermicro mobos to boot OpenBSD 5.0. >From that instance, I used sendbug(1) to mail a bug report. From looking at the changelog http://openbsd.org/plus48.html I see that two changes were checked in between 4.7 and 4.8 related to inteldrm. Hopefully this helps the maintainer of that module to track down and fix the problem.
Happy New Year to All! Cheers, --Bill
