From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 01:20:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B127F1065673 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9628FC17 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBO1K3a8090214 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBO1K32C090213; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:03 GMT Message-Id: <200812240120.mBO1K32C090213@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: John Hood Cc: Subject: Re: kern/127486: [smp] [panic] early SMP panic ("AP #1 (PHY #1) failed!") on Dell Inspiron 530 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Hood List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:20:03 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/127486; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Hood To: "Philip M. Gollucci" 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