From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 14 00:27:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2DCC106564A for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:27:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout025.mac.com (asmtpout025.mac.com [17.148.16.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8078FC13 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:27:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from macbook-pro.lan.xcllnt.net (mail.xcllnt.net [75.101.29.67]) by asmtp025.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KMQ00DM1X81CU00@asmtp025.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:26:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Marcel Moolenaar In-reply-to: Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:26:25 -0700 Message-id: <2CBB10B1-6E40-42A1-96DF-BC40E66B5E7E@mac.com> References: To: "Hayer, Sukhjinder" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1070) Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 8.1-Current installation panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:27:09 -0000 On Jul 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Hayer, Sukhjinder wrote: > All, > I get a panic while installing freeBSD 8.1-CURRENT on IA64 integrity > server. > It seems that there is something about the logical processors which > it's not liking. > On the EFI when I run cpuconfig , it shows two processor modules > ( ID 0 and 1 ) and > For each processor module it show 2 logical processors. Any idea as > to how to get > past this. Interrupt the boot and set the following variable at the loader prompt: set kern.smp.disabled=1 This disables SMP and should prevent the panic. In the mean time, I'll look into it. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com