From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 21 05:16:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAB71065692 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:16:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lucas@cs.ucla.edu) Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [131.179.128.62]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 369A98FC12 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25A939E80F2; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:16:24 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2migoZnT-CF4; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (cpe-76-169-68-244.socal.res.rr.com [76.169.68.244]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 47B3C39E80B1; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:16:24 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Lucas Wang In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:16:23 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <8F551093-B976-488E-AC72-68C2A6D7CA8C@cs.ucla.edu> References: To: Ivan Voras X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making installworld got stuck on SunFire v20z (Freebsd 8.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:16:25 -0000 Thanks for your reply. I'll give it a try. Lucas On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Lucas Wang wrote: >> I tried to install Freebsd 8.0 on one of our lab machines, which is >> SunFire v20z. After successfully installing it from CD, I followed = the >> following steps trying to update the kernel and world: >> cvsup >> make buildworld >> make buildkernel >> make installkernel >> reboot >> mergemaster -p >> make installworld >> Everything was fine until the `make installworld` process run for a = while and then got stuck, after that it won't respond to Ctrl-C. When I = tried to login from another tty, it doesn't respond either. I even tried = installing the machine from scratch >> several times, and at different times it got stuck when installing = different libraries. I would really appreciate any ideas about why this = could happen or how >> to solve it. >=20 > If you have an AMD CPU of a recent generation, Try adding >=20 > vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=3D0 >=20 > to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting. This disables Superpages - there = is a CPU bug on some of those. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"