Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:17:00 -0800 From: Greg Goodman <greg@fastserve.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: 6.0 problems Message-ID: <55-1932875418.20060228181700@fastserve.net> In-Reply-To: <44038B94.7090409@mac.com> References: <122-2030100400.20060227151635@fastserve.net> <44038B94.7090409@mac.com>
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Hello Chuck,
Thanks for your help we updated the bios on the Supermicro motherboard
and it fixed the problem.
Monday, February 27, 2006, 3:30:28 PM, you wrote:
CS> Greg Goodman wrote:
CS> [ ... ]
>> When freebsd6.0 boots it will hang at the part that says
>> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>>
>> The system is running a Supermicro motherboard with dual 3.2 gig Xeon cpus
>> and 2 gig ram. Also running an Adaptec raid 5 card.
>>
>> If we boot up in safe mode it boots fine.
CS> Ah, that was a useful bit of information to mention. Booting in safe mode
CS> disables ACPI and the APIC, which also means that SMP will not be enabled. You
CS> might try hunting around for an updated BIOS for the motherboard, or try
CS> tweaking the power-management/ACPI section of your BIOS.
CS> However, if you can boot a working system using safe mode, you can also try to
CS> use cvsup to update the system to 6.1-PRERELEASE, and see whether that works
CS> better for you.
CS> Otherwise, someone with more knowledge than I have will need to take a closer
CS> look; you could help this process by putting your dmesg output on a webserver
CS> somewhere and posting a link to it. If you build a new kernel, you can include
CS> mechanisms to break to a debugger, which might prove useful in that you can get
CS> a backtrace showing where the kernel is wandering off when it hangs.
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