Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:28:14 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: "Hayer, Sukhjinder" <sukhjinder.hayer@hp.com> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.1-Current installation panic Message-ID: <B575810A-D0E2-4C4A-BC6B-8FBE0AC0C1D5@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <A11E4A1228B2004E90D83FEB372C90133F16CABA2A@GVW0671EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <A11E4A1228B2004E90D83FEB372C90133F16CABA27@GVW0671EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <2CBB10B1-6E40-42A1-96DF-BC40E66B5E7E@mac.com> <A11E4A1228B2004E90D83FEB372C90133F16CABA2A@GVW0671EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net>
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I have a fix already. Please install with SMP disabled so that I can give you the fix for testing. I'm reluctant to commit it this close to release without knowing if it fixes the problem. FYI -- Marcel On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:08 AM, "Hayer, Sukhjinder" <sukhjinder.hayer@hp.com > wrote: > 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 the SMP is disabled > I may not the exact same behavior . Is there any other possible fix > for this. > > Thanks > Sukhjinder Hayer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcel Moolenaar [mailto:xcllnt@mac.com] > 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 >> server. >> It seems that there is something about the logical processors which >> it's not liking. >> On the EFI when I run cpuconfig , it shows two processor modules ( ID >> 0 and 1 ) and For each processor module it show 2 logical processors. >> 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=1 > > This disables SMP and should prevent the panic. In the mean time, > I'll look into it. > > FYI, > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > xcllnt@mac.com > > >
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