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From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: amd64/164457: [install] Can&#39;t install FreeBSD 9.0 (amd64)
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The following reply was made to PR amd64/164457; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/164457: [install] Can&#39;t install FreeBSD 9.0 (amd64)
 on HP Blade (ProLiant BL465c G1 )
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:51:06 +0200

 on 26/01/2012 19:45 Ewald Jenisch said the following:
 > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:45:23AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
 >>
 >> I suspect that your problem might be related to the recent eventtimers changes.
 >> Could you please try playing with setting the following tunables on the loader
 >> prompt (via 'set' command)?
 >>
 >> kern.eventtimer.periodic=1
 >> kern.eventtimer.timer="LAPIC"
 >>
 > 
 > Hi Andriy,
 > 
 > This neatly did the trick! :-) In setting both values I was able to boot
 > off the install-CD. After installation I had to make sure both of these
 > settings end up in /boot/loader.conf so the machine comes up.
 > 
 > Unfortunately I've now got another problem: When doing a "sync" this 
 > command obviously doesn't terminate (i.e. no commandline-prompt reappearing).
 > Could this be related to the same cause?
 
 Not sure.
 
 > BTW, Any documentation as to what these two settings you mentioned actually do?
 > 
 > Thanks for your help!
 
 There is eventtimers(4) manual page.
 You may also want to try to contact Alexander Motin (mav@) directly, he is the
 author and maintainer of that code.
 
 -- 
 Andriy Gapon