From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 18:30:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE722106566C for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 031628FC13 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id UAA28818; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:30:15 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1PyTZu-000NV2-Ka; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:30:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4D7BBBB6.4060004@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:30:14 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110308 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Felder References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 850 Panic on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:30:19 -0000 on 12/03/2011 19:47 Mark Felder said the following: > Hi guys, > > Not sure if this is the right place to report this but we have a couple Dell > 850s at work and the extra one we're trying to put FreeBSD on panics on boot. > The servers are running 3.0ghz Pentium D processors (dual core) and they've got > the EMT64 extension. So far it panics with the install cd for these versions: > > 8.1 i386 and amd64 > 8.2 i386 and amd64 > 7.4 amd64 > > I haven't tried any others. We needed to get this up to test something BSD > specific so right now it's running OpenBSD. > > Here is a picture of the console from when it panics: > > http://feld.me/stuff/freebsd/dell_850_panic.png > > Some people in the ##freebsd channel on Freenode said it looked like it panics > whenever it initializes the second CPU. There's no option in the BIOS (which is > up to date) that offers you the ability to disable a core or hyperthreading or > whatever this CPU does. > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Mark, do you get exactly the same panic message with 8.2 or a slightly more informative one? If the latter, then could please provide a screenshot of that? Thanks for the report! -- Andriy Gapon