From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 16:15:51 2008 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 D2F9B1065686 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:15:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647B38FC08 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:15:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m91GFkGJ013178; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:15:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy-128.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.160] helo=buffy.york.ac.uk) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Kl4Mc-00064B-Bc; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:15:46 +0100 Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m91GFj1C036480; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:15:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m91GFiba036479; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:15:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Mars G Miro In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:15:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1222877744.29968.76.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 6-CORE Dunnington 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: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:15:51 -0000 On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 23:36 +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: > Hiya > > Has anyone successfully tried installing and running FreeBSD on > Intel's newest 6-CORE Dunnington? > > I was able to install 200809-CURRENT on it but after recompiling > the kernel (taking out WITNESS, INVARIANTS KGDB et al) I found out > that I could not boot it anymore. What's weird is that I could not > boot the same 200809-CURRENT CD that I used the first time. Just hangs > on > .... > uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > uhci0: [ITHREAD] > .... > > I've also tried installing via PXE and it always hangs on the above > spot, even using a -CURRENT from Sept 26 and PXE-booting it. No go :-( Firstly, does it seem to be detecting all six CPUs correctly? Are you able to reboot with the old kernel and put a verbose dmesg and the output of "acpidump -dt" up on the web somewhere? It would also be interesting to know if anything else is printed after the above when it hangs on a verbose boot. There was a report back in July about FreeBSD not discovering all the CPUs on the board, but there was no mention of hanging on boot. Gavin