From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 11:32:42 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 C7A5D1065686 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:32:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533E48FC1D for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:32:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from vampire.homelinux.org (dslb-088-067-249-220.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.67.249.220]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwtQ-1Kntl30gYG-0005AK; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:32:41 +0200 Received: (qmail 2847 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2008 11:32:40 -0000 Received: from fbsd8.laiers.local (192.168.4.151) by router.laiers.local with SMTP; 9 Oct 2008 11:32:40 -0000 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:32:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.1; i386; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810091332.40091.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19sb8n/NVsFjind4QUnN18R3B3UndPKvGT0GBv CiE65mYS0p21ZFDY3JeuDmIHg4D1pTdNXS9+PirIfeCZqYaIPw Ln1xr6xwbtbcfySBZeLEw== Cc: Mars G Miro 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 11:32:43 -0000 On Thursday 09 October 2008 10:56:28 Mars G Miro wrote: > 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. This should be fixed with the following commit: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/183525 > 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 -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News