From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 13 20:23:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5B216A4DE for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mich@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.itxmarket.com (fw.itxmarket.com [84.14.136.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E57B43D4C for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:23:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mich@FreeBSD.org) Received: from icommerce.fr (mich2.itxmarket.com [192.168.2.26]) by mail2.itxmarket.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE381C0952; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:23:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by icommerce.fr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9D3E72281F; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:23:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:23:34 +0200 From: Michael Landin Hostbaek To: avleeuwen@piwebs.com Message-ID: <20060813202334.GR68776@mich2.itxmarket.com> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Landin Hostbaek , avleeuwen@piwebs.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE i386 X-PGP-Key: http://www.freebsdcluster.org/~mich/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM xSeries 336 dual Xeon hangs on boot when APIC enabled 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: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:23:36 -0000 Arjan van Leeuwen (avleeuwen) writes: > I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 on an IBM xSeries 336 machine > with dual Xeons 3.2GHz installed. > > The installation was successful, but > if I try to boot the SMP kernel, it hangs after detection of SCSI and ATA > devices (possibly when doing the initialization of the mpt0 RAID controller, > or when it tries to start the second CPU?). > I've just had a similar problem with an IBM xSeries 232 - it would not boot with apic enabled.. I chased the problem down to the network adapter (fxp) - and when disabling the planar ethernet in BIOS it would boot with SMP. I managed to get both NIC and SMP working by disabling a bunch of stuff in the BIOS, fx both serial ports and also the floppy drive. Your problem might not be related, but give it a shot ! /mich