Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:41:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-R-p2 crashes on SMP with AMI RAID and Intel 1000/Pro Message-ID: <XFMail.20030814104156.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030814124522.G64942@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On 14-Aug-2003 Hartmann, O. wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > Dear John. > > I go to try an UP kernel today, but I make no promises. > > I changed today these three config line in the running, but > crashing kernel: > > options HZ=1000 > options PQ_CACHESIZE=256 > options AUTO_EOI_1 > > I commented them all out because I suspect them causing trouble. > But this kernel does not boot anymore, it gets stuck at the same place > (showing amrd0 raid is ok) as the other ones. > > The nasty thing is I can not downgrade to 4.8 because I used UFS2, > so I'm highly interested in getting this weird TYAN Thunder 2500 SMP > system to work. > > I remember myself that the first occurence of those massive IRQ problems > occured after one of the AMI/LSI RAID BIOS updates, which where necessary > due to problems with IBM harddrives. Please be aware that I have the newest > BIOS installed (but the problems where present with the previous ones also). > > I'll send you dmesg output with UP kernel if it works. I remember myself about > a kernel boot option to force the loader to tell the kernel to boot > more verbose. Can you tell me this option? I think it will be more suitable to get a > verbose kernel log than this short one ... boot -v will give you the verbose boot output. If you have another machine available you can boot using a serial console (type 'set console=comconsole' in the loader and the console will move to COM1 at 9600 bps) and log that output which wilh let you send it to the list. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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