Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:03 GMT
From: John Hood <jh@sandstorm.net>
To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/127486: [smp] [panic] early SMP panic ("AP #1 (PHY #1) failed!") on Dell Inspiron 530
Message-ID: <200812240120.mBO1K32C090213@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/127486; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: John Hood <jh@sandstorm.net>
To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@ridecharge.com>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/127486: [smp] [panic] early SMP panic ("AP #1 (PHY #1) failed!")
on Dell Inspiron 530
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:53:26 -0500
Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Any news on this, I'm a ports committer and am seeing exactly the same
> thing though it fails to boot 100% of the time from the HD.
>
> APCI comes into play too.. If I disable it, I get all the way down to
> the HD mount which always fails and I can't type at the where is your
> root mount device prompt.
Are you disabling the APIC or ACPI? APIC support is required for SMP,
so if you've disabled APIC, you'll not see the crash I reported.
> If I leave it enabled, it panics as this PR describes.
>
> This is with a 7.0-R boot only iso and installed over the network.
>
> I'll give 8-current and 7-stable a whirl hopefully tonight.
Sorry I didn't respond earlier...
No, sorry, no actual progress on a fix. I have discovered that on my
systems, it seems related to keyboard input as/after the loader
transfers to the kernel. If I let the system autoboot, it's (usually)
fine. If I break to the loader prompt and type "boot", the boot fails.
If I type "autoboot 2", the boot succeeds. If I type "autoboot 2" and
bang on the keyboard for a few seconds, the boot fails.
I'm guessing the BIOS or loader or early kernel code somehow gets
tripped by the key-up event on the return key, which comes in after the
kernel has started. You might try some variations on this theme.
--jh
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