Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:15:47 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: Nik Azim Azam <nskyline_r35@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: apic lockups Message-ID: <200405190815.47604.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040518195146.88092.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040518195146.88092.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:51 pm, Nik Azim Azam wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having problem with the latest FreeBSD-CURRENT and > APIC. The system is an ALR 6x6 with 6 processors. > Booting with APIC makes the kernel freezes after > diplaying the timecounter message. Ctrl+Alt+Delete > doesn't work, I need to reset the computer. It works > fine if I boot without APIC. > > I tried doing 'set hw.apic.mixed_mode=0' at the loader > prompt and it doesn't work. > > -CURRENT with APIC dated on 4th of May works fine. > > I attach the dmesg and mptable output from -CURRENT > dated on 4th of May and the kernel output from the > latest kernel. Can you try booting with 'kern.smp.disabled=1' instead? It may be that FreeBSD is just not handling 6 processors well. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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