From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 21 18:13:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 18:13:19 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wedgev.com (cm57-70.liwest.at [212.33.57.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDDCC37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77786 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2000 02:13:07 -0000 Received: from cipher.home (HELO cipher) (10.0.0.2) by switch.home with SMTP; 22 Dec 2000 02:13:07 -0000 Message-ID: <000501c06bff$c2d279a0$0200000a@cipher> From: "Bernhard Valenti" To: Subject: weird problem with athlon on -stable Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:12:59 -0800 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, i'm experiencing some weird problem... when 4.2 was in beta i setup a athlon 500(asus board), and copied the freebsd installation from my primary machine ( dual celeron ) to the athlons disk. i had to build a single CPU kernel on the athlon cause the smp kernel did abort during boot. so i went into single user(with kernel.GENERIC), built a new kernel, and booted it. 2-3 seconds after printing the login prompt, the box crashed *every*( i tried ~10 times) time i booted normally(no unusual message during boot,no panic, but it stoped responding to the keyboard/network). but it worked perfectly fine in single user mode.. i spent ~2 hours in single user mode with manually started services and network. i think i even ran a make world.. anyway.. i couldnt find the problem so i went and installed 4.1.1-release from cd. everything worked fine after that, even after updating to 4.2 today, i bought a athlon 1Ghz+abit board(different chipset then the asus), replaced the dual celeron with it, and have exactly the same problem. is a world built on a smp incompatible with single cpu systems !?(i doubt that) maybe its that i choose i686 as cpu type, but why does "single user" work fine then? is there something i'm missing ? i'd be glad to hear any ideas.. bernhard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message