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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:41:02 +0200
From:      Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <20040929054102.GB1831@e-Gitt.NET>
In-Reply-To: <41541D9B.1050705@voicenet.com>
References:  <200409240741.i8O7fMmN043816@pooker.samsco.org> <20040924084308.GA55290@e-Gitt.NET> <200409240208.53908.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <41541D9B.1050705@voicenet.com>

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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:14:03AM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> That would be me.  Here's a summary of what I encountered (all this can 
> be found in the "SMP problems with -CURRENT (and BETA5)":
> 
> With HTT enabled in the BIOS:
> 
> 1) With ACPI and APIC enabled: Locking up after detecting my hard drives 
> and launching the second processor.
> 
> 2) With ACPI disabled and APIC enabled:  Crashing with a "Fatal trap 9".
> 
> 3) With both ACPI and APIC disabled: Success.
> 
> With HTT disabled in the BIOS:
> 
> 1) With ACPI and APIC enabled:  Locking up after detecting my hard drives.
> 
> And, I'd agree with your assesment that, no matter the cause, this is a 
> pretty significant show-stopping bug :-)

I tried (inspired by thread "FDC/ACPI/GEOM problems") booting with the 
floppy disk controller disabled in the BIOS. That works fine for me. SO 
it seems the problem is somewhere in that direction then.

- Oliver

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