From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 08:56:30 2008 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 1D8CC106568C for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spry@anarchy.in.the.ph) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9910E8FC17 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:56:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spry@anarchy.in.the.ph) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so141035nfh.33 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.63.19 with SMTP id l19mr8520410fga.60.1223542588210; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.4.18 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:56:28 +0800 From: "Mars G Miro" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:22:29 +0000 Subject: Re: 6-CORE Dunnington 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: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:56:30 -0000 On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Mars G Miro wrote: > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: >> Mars, good day. >> > > Yo > >> Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:36:43PM +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: >>> I was able to install 200809-CURRENT on it but after recompiling >>> the kernel (taking out WITNESS, INVARIANTS KGDB et al) I found out >>> that I could not boot it anymore. What's weird is that I could not >>> boot the same 200809-CURRENT CD that I used the first time. >> >> [Assuming you had not touched any hardware or BIOS configuration >> since last good boot from -CURRENT CD.] >> >> Was is the totally cold boot (with power-off via unplugging the power >> cord/switching off the master power input on the power supply) or just a >> some sort of a warm or semi-cold boot with power button? I had seen >> the cases where hardware was in a such bad state, that only totally >> cold boot was helping to recover. >> > > Yes, I do this from time to time when I encounter hardware problems > like these. I've tried various BIOS settings and configurations, > changing to default BIOS values, I'd think I've scoured through all > the BIOS settings, frustratingly because the BIOS takes quite some > time to load (well this is a test platform, whaddya expect :-p) > > Cold-booting does not help either. > > >> Just hangs >>> on >>> .... >>> uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >>> uhci0: [ITHREAD] >> >> Any ways to disable (at least partially) USB stuff via BIOS? May >> be disabling other devices will help too -- try to play with the >> disabling the various controllers. > > I've tried that one too. > > Someone mentioned the same boot hangup problems I've had and the 'fix' was to boot to some other OS first, like Linux. I tried Slackware 12.1 (also hangs somewhere during boot) and then Ubuntu 8.04 (am able to go into the install screen) but rebooting back to freebsd is no go. Then I recalled we were able to successfully install 64-bit Windows 2003 Server on it. So I booted it to the windows 2003 server just to the point where it asks to install it, then rebooted it to the already installed FreeBSD. verbose dmesgs of FreeBSD-200809 CURRENT: http://pastebin.com/f367b3203 of FreeBSD-20080925 CURRENT: http://pastebin.com/f4338460a I have also an output of acpidump but its quite huge, pastebin has limits: -rw-r--r-- 1 mars staff - 398105 Oct 9 16:38 DUNNINGTON-acpidump-td.txt Email me privately if you want this (or I can give this to someone w/ ample bandwidth and a web server). Also it detects only 16CPUs instead of 24. Win2k3 detects all 24. make -j16 buildworld: 4442.721u 3236.681s 16:29.50 776.0% 6064+6203k 539+8258io 15117pf+0w But I have an HP DL380 Quad-Core Xeon that rebuilds the world in just 13 minutes :-p Thanks. >> -- >> Eygene >> _ ___ _.--. # >> \`.|\..----...-'` `-._.-'_.-'` # Remember that it is hard >> / ' ` , __.--' # to read the on-line manual >> )/' _/ \ `-_, / # while single-stepping the kernel. >> `-'" `"\_ ,_.-;_.-\_ ', fsc/as # >> _.-'_./ {_.' ; / # -- FreeBSD Developers handbook >> {_.-``-' {_/ # >> > > > > -- > cheers > mars > -- cheers mars