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From: Nik Azim Azam <nskyline_r35@yahoo.com>
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Booting with 'kern.smp.disabled=1' doesn't make a
difference. The kernel hangs at the same place.

thanks,
nik.

--- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 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"  = 
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