From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 14 17:10:50 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 423081065678 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sukhjinder.hayer@hp.com) Received: from g5t0006.atlanta.hp.com (g5t0006.atlanta.hp.com [15.192.0.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D418FC0A for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sukhjinder.hayer@hp.com) Received: from G6W0640.americas.hpqcorp.net (g6w0640.atlanta.hp.com [16.230.34.76]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by g5t0006.atlanta.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48EF9C538; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from G5W0602.americas.hpqcorp.net (16.228.9.185) by G6W0640.americas.hpqcorp.net (16.230.34.76) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.1.375.2; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:07 +0000 Received: from GVW0671EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net ([16.230.34.3]) by G5W0602.americas.hpqcorp.net ([16.228.9.185]) with mapi; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:07 +0000 From: "Hayer, Sukhjinder" To: Marcel Moolenaar Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:06 +0000 Thread-Topic: 8.1-Current installation panic Thread-Index: AcoEGdLVX5jrDRtyQquwkTwI0FcNHQAixWTw Message-ID: References: <2CBB10B1-6E40-42A1-96DF-BC40E66B5E7E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <2CBB10B1-6E40-42A1-96DF-BC40E66B5E7E@mac.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 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 17:10:50 -0000 Marcel, Thanks for your reply. But I really don't want to turn off the SMP. Since = I will Be debugging a problem which happens on a mutiprocessor platform . So if th= e SMP is disabled I may not the exact same behavior . Is there any other possible fix for thi= s. Thanks Sukhjinder Hayer -----Original Message----- From: Marcel Moolenaar [mailto:xcllnt@mac.com]=20 Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 5:26 PM To: Hayer, Sukhjinder Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1-Current installation panic 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=20 > server. > It seems that there is something about the logical processors which=20 > it's not liking. > On the EFI when I run cpuconfig , it shows two processor modules ( ID=20 > 0 and 1 ) and For each processor module it show 2 logical processors.=20 > 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=3D1 This disables SMP and should prevent the panic. In the mean time, I'll look= into it. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com