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Date:      Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:23:14 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Julien Ammous <julien.ammous@supinfo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD6 freeze at boot
Message-ID:  <20060213182314.GC705@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <43F07CB4.1090207@supinfo.com>
References:  <43F07CB4.1090207@supinfo.com>

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On Mon, 2006-Feb-13 13:33:56 +0100, Julien Ammous wrote:
>I use freebsd 6 on my main router without problems since it was released 

Is this 6.0-RELEASE, RELENG_6_0 or RELENG_6?
What motherboard are you using?
What CPU is it (you cut this out of your dmesg)?

>The freeze happens after this line:
>npx0: [FAST]
>
>With my understanding of this, it seems it have something against the 
>math processor or something near since it is the line following this one.

This implies it's hanging in npx_probe() which suggests that there is
something wrong with the math co-processor interface.

>Ps: The kernel is GENERIC, I wait until everything works before 
>recompiling a new one. I know there are some warnings but they happen 
>after my freeze problem so i don't think they are related, and the 
>system works well after booting (when it boots).

What warnings?
Are you able to successfully use floating point (and get correct answers)?

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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