Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:12:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Miele <bmiele@ipnstock.com> To: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: 6.1 hangs after launching CPU on DL380 Message-ID: <20060802091054.U2057@shanty.ipnstock.com> In-Reply-To: <20060802073610.GA27139@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <8753F8EA457BFF4A9707CADA143C8F6801623829@LONSMSXM04.emea.ime.reuters.com> <20060802073610.GA27139@chuggalug.clues.com>
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I haven't tried with a non smp kernel, and given the choice between the pause and no smp, i thing i will live with the pause also. I am going to try the recommendation of setting the os type and disabling acpi, we'll see. thanks, Brad --------------------- Brad Miele VP Technology IPNStock.com 866 476 7862 x902 bmiele@ipnstock.com On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Geoff Buckingham wrote: >> >> I am not sure that this is an issue specific to proliant, but... >> >> I just finished an install of 6.1 on a dl380 with dual xeon 3.2 procs. >> things seem fine, but when it is booting, it hangs for about 4 minutes >> after the "Launching CPU x" phase. Boot continues normally after that, >> but the delay is disconcerting for some reason. >> >> anyone dealt with this. >> > Do you get this with non SMP kernels? We have seen hangs, or pauses on > machines with ciss controllers during GEOM setup. The length of the pause > varied with the number of GEOMs loaded. It was ususally around a minute > with a minimal set. It would seem logical the period would increase with > more disk arrays. (We only had one). > > My own, untested, theory is GEOM is tasting the passX devices provided by > the ciss driver and becoming confused by something. > > Currently we just live with the pause:-( > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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