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Date:      Wed, 19 May 2004 08:15:47 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Nik Azim Azam <nskyline_r35@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: apic lockups
Message-ID:  <200405190815.47604.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040518195146.88092.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040518195146.88092.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com>

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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.

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