From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 25 18:08:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499CF16A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:08:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B82B43D46 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:08:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.5.50] (adsl-64-171-186-250.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.171.186.250]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8PI8tDl032399 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:08:56 -0700 Message-ID: <4155B437.5020806@root.org> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:08:55 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Syphers References: <200409211736.i8LHajfK000463@mist.nodomain> <4150757E.60504@root.org> <200409211206.03632.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200409240059.47087.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200409240059.47087.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA5-i386-disc1 bootstrap failures X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:08:57 -0000 David Syphers wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:06 pm, David Syphers wrote: >>On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:39 am, Nate Lawson wrote: >> >>>The "safe mode" from the daemon loader disables both acpi and apic so >>>that's one easy way to do this. >> >>This is the same problem I reported yesterday (with the more generic >>subject of "can't install 5.3-BETA5"). Booting in "safe mode" worked fine, >>and got me to the installation screen. > > The list has been quiet about this, so I assume it's a rare problem. Actually, at least I need more info to even know where to begin. How about dmesg for starters? > But I've > got a couple questions about it. First, does anyone have any idea what's > actually wrong? My computer is running -CURRENT from August 3 fine. (I don't > have APIC in that kernel.) Anything having to do with ACPI is default. My > computer is some generic HP, not quite three years old. More info available > if it would help. > > If the problem is known, will it be fixed in BETA6? RC1? Try just disabling apic: hint.apic.0.disable="1" > I can get to the installation screen by booting in "safe mode." Is it okay to > install from there? In the kernel config file, it seems APIC is associated > with SMP. I'm running UP, so why would this have any affect on my system? Newer machines have APIC support which gives faster interrupts. But it's quite safe to run a UP or MP machine with apic disabled. You just lose performance (or the extra processors). -- Nate