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Date:      Fri, 22 Aug 1997 22:39:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: SMP problem.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970822223915.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970822171848.18322z-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>

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Hi Jaye Mathisen;  On 23-Aug-97 you wrote: 
>  
>  
>  Being relatively new to FreeBSD vs SMP, I will plead ignorance, but not
>  lack of exuberance... :)
>  
>  Digital ZX6000, P6-200, 2CPU's, 256MB RAM, FreeBSD 3.0 cvsup'd from
>  8/20.
>  
>  I built the SMP-GENERIC kernel with the 1.2.1 DPT patches.
>  
>  System boots OK, makes it to "changing root to sd0a".
>  
>  Then prints:
>  
>  APIC_IO: routing 8254 via pin 2
>  de0: enabling 100baseTX port
>  
>  And then nada.  Locked up tight.  Booting the UNI kernel works fine.
>  I can't get into DDB or anything.

Now this is a first.  Are you sure  ctl-alt-esc did nothing?

I am running, albeit with some problems (none like what you describe) with
the same setup on a P6DNH and soon on an Intel PR440FX.

>  Tips appreciated.
>  
>  I am installing the latest BIOS now, (I was 1 rev behind), but would be
>  skeptical of that actually helping.
>  
>  The box ran Solaris 2.5.1 SMP just fine, albeit with a Mylex instead of
>  DPT.  So I'm hoping it's something simple.

Simon




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