Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:00:31 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making installworld got stuck on SunFire v20z (Freebsd 8.0) Message-ID: <hlq0jf$tbs$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <F4D80A0B-2DFD-46C7-97FF-4F16E116AF15@cs.ucla.edu> References: <F4D80A0B-2DFD-46C7-97FF-4F16E116AF15@cs.ucla.edu>
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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. If you have an AMD CPU of a recent generation, Try adding vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting. This disables Superpages - there is a CPU bug on some of those.
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