From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 12:50:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F57416A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:50:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu (mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB80C43D1F for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu) X-Envelope-From: koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu X-Envelope-To: Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.96.70]) by mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i24KoLO08070 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:50:21 -0600 Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i24KoM5D021233 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:50:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu) Received: (from koziol@localhost) by sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i24KoMa9021232 for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:50:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol) From: Quincey Koziol Message-Id: <200403042050.i24KoMa9021232@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040304041056.GA34790@dragon.nuxi.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:50:22 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: freebsd-amd64 Digest, Vol 39, Issue 3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:50:24 -0000 > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:25:31PM -0600, Quincey Koziol wrote: > > [ PGP not available, raw data follows ] > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 23:01, Quincey Koziol wrote: > > > > > in addition, my make.conf sets -g for everything, so the whole system is > > > > > built with debugging all the time. It runs smoothly. > > > > > > > > Hmm, what motherboard are you using? I've got an MSI K8T Master-FAR2 > > > > in this system. Is anyone out there successfully using this motherboard > > > > with FreeBSD 5-CURRENT? > > > > > > Asus K8V deluxe, amd64 3200+, 1G RAM. Nothing weird going on at all. I started > > > with a snapshot releease from november, got the cvsup-no-gui, updated, and > > > have been tracking current since. I've never actually installed any of the > > > - -RELEASEs that support amd64. > > Hmm, that's a single-CPU board, correct? Mine is a dual-CPU board with > > two opteron 240's installed. I wonder if that's the problem... I may try to > > build with a non-SMP kernel if this latest build still has the weird "slowness" > > problem. > > You've got some very bad problems. Tell me about it! :-( > First off, you shouldn't need to hack the 5.2.1 source at all to build. > Second, I also have an MSI dual-processor Opteron (MSI-9131 K8D Master-F) > system -- it is the one that built the 5.2.1 release. I also have an > Iwill DK8X dual-processor board. Neither are _glacially_ slow. Hmm, I may just send this machine back and switch to "known good" hardware. Which dual-Opteron motherboard would you recommend? One of the two you have or another one? > The first thing to do is check that you have the latest BIOS. Second is > to tell the CPU and RAM (DDR what and CL what). Next is post the output > of "boot -v". Well, I did upgrade to the latest BIOS (from 1.0 to 1.1), but that didn't help at all. I have two Opteron 240's in the machine with two DDR2100 RAM modules set to "auto" in the BIOS (but I tried the CAS 2 and CAS 2.5 manual settings also, both of which didn't help). I went ahead and re-installed 5.1-RELEASE, grabbed the 5.2-CURRENT source code from this morning and re-built everything. This time, everything built very smoothly (no hacking the Makefiles, etc.), but it now hangs before giving me the problem for a shell (when booting in single-user mode, since I was trying to finish the re-install procedure), so I can't get the output from "boot -v". I've tried changing the "MPS Version Control for OS" from 1.4 to 1.1 (as I saw someone else had success with), but that didn't help either. Any further suggestions? Do I have defective hardware? Thanks, Quincey