From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 20 17: 7:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F8C15872 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nemesys@home.com) Received: from cr717730b ([24.112.177.211]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with SMTP id <19991121010511.VFQK7575.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@cr717730b>; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:05:11 -0800 Message-ID: <006801bf33bc$92248b80$d3b17018@wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com> From: "Jason Craig" To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: "FreeBSD Hackers" References: Subject: Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:05:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It worked like a charm. I've commented out the SMP portion of the kernel config, and inserted the controller mca0 like you said. I was actually going to try this when I created the kernel config file to begin with. But didn't bother. Guess I should have went with my instinct. Thanks, Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew N. Dodd To: Jason Craig Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 4:12 PM Subject: Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Jason Craig wrote: > > Here's what I see when I boot with the kernel I compiled a few days ago: > > Humm... > > I see where the problem is. > > I'd like you to compile a kernel without SMP support but with MCA support. > > Add: > > controller mca0 > > I'm working on the SMP angle. > > > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 > > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > > FreeBSD 4.0-19991113-CURRENT #0: Fri Nov 19 08:00:49 GMT 1999 > > > > root@cr717730-d.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL.1119199 > > 9 > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > > CPU: Pentium/P54C (89.96-MHz 586-class CPU) > > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping = 5 > > Features=0x3bf > > real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) > > avail memory = 62033920 (60580K bytes) > > panic: unknown bus type: 'MCA' > > mp_lock = 00000004; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 00000000 > > > > Boom... Locked up. > > > > When I created the custom kernel config for this machine I did removed > > devices that were not present in my system (as usual), and enabled SMP. > > > > # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed > > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel > > options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O > > # Optionally these may need tweaked, (defaults shown): > > options NCPU=2 # number of CPUs > > #options NBUS=4 # number of busses > > #options NAPIC=1 # number of IO APICs > > #options NINTR=24 # number of INTs > > > > A little lower I noticed that there were no entries for MCA, should there be > > one? > > > > controller isa0 > > controller pnp0 # PnP support for ISA > > controller eisa0 > > controller pci0 > > > > Thans in advance, > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Matthew N. Dodd > > To: Jason Craig > > Cc: > > Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 8:56 PM > > Subject: Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support > > > > > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jason Craig wrote: > > > > I have a few FreeBSD machines that I am playing around with now, and > > > > have come across a nice old IBM PC Server 320 with dual P90 processors > > > > and 64MB of RAM i would also like to utilize. > > > > > > > > I am currently using 4.0-19991113-CURRENT generic kernel, and things are > > > > working great. > > > > > > > > However, I tried to compile a custom kernel to weed out any unwanted > > > > devices, and to enable SMP and have have run into a problem. After > > > > compiling the kernel using the standard procedure, I rebooted it, and > > > > it panic'd after doing the kernel config. > > > > > > > > I tried removing most of the entries from /boot/kernel.conf, only to > > > > find it still panics saying something about the MCA bus. > > > > > > Using the serial console, capture the boot messages and attach them to the > > > reply to this message. > > > > > > -- > > > | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | > > > | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | > > > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | > | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message