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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:27:11 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
Subject:   Re: Boot code broken in some way in recent current (Was: Panic at boot)
Message-ID:  <200408231327.11303.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040821133304.D84878@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <41261D1B.5000003@cronyx.ru> <412640B5.9090104@cronyx.ru> <20040821133304.D84878@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Saturday 21 August 2004 04:35 pm, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> >     At first I have two SMP system (Dual) one that boots normaly and one
> > that
> > goes to panic (the older pc).
> >    I've setup finaly serial console to that system, so here is more
> > detailed output:
> >
> > OK boot -Dhv
> > /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x406a8 data=0x1bc4+0x110c
> > syms=[0x4+0x72d0+0x4+0x9754]
>
> Have you tried booting without enabling ACPI?  The ACPI tables seem to
> think you have two APs and no BSP.

ACPI tables have no concept at all of a BSP.  We infer the BSP by checking the 
APIC ID of the CPU we are currently executing on when enumerating CPUs.

> Also check the BIOS and set the MPTable version to 1.4, and upgrade the
> BIOS itself if there is an update.

Since it worked before the recent loader change, I doubt this will make a 
difference.  More likely is that the code picked a bad memory address to 
install the AP trampoline into for some reason.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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