Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:26:28 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Oleg Sharoiko <os@rsu.ru> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Andrey Beresovsky <and@rsu.ru>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot hangs on ips0: resetting adapter, this may take up to 5 minutes Message-ID: <43F38E74.6020705@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060215102749.D58480@brain.cc.rsu.ru> References: <20060215102749.D58480@brain.cc.rsu.ru>
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Oleg Sharoiko wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to install 6.0 on IBM eServer xSeries 226 (2 CPUs, IBM > ServeRAID 6i). During normal boot GENERIC kernel hangs with the last > message being > > ips0: resetting adapter, this may take up to 5 minutes > > Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work. Pressing power button doesn't work either, > have to push it and wait for several seconds to switch the system off. > > With hint.apic.0.disabled=1 GENERIC seems to boot fine. It's also possible > to boot FreeBSD/i386 when hyper-threading is enabled (4 logical CPUs) and > kernel has SMP option (just tried default SMP kernel). With only 2 CPUs > (HTT disabled) SMP kernel also hangs at the same point. FreeBSD/amd64 only > boots with apic disabled. This is not specific for 6.0 as RELENG_6 and > CURRENT also have this problem. > > Could somebody please help me debugging this problem? Logs of verbose > boots are available at http://rsu.ru/~os/ips/ I'm ready to provide any > possible help needed to resolve this issue. I'd greatly appreciate any > help. > This sounds like an interrupt routing problem. The symptoms are similar to others where APIC-routed interrupts don't seem to make it to the active CPUs, depending on whether SMP or HTT is enabled or disabled. Maybe John has some insight here. Scott
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