Hello Chuck, Thanks for your help we updated the bios on the Supermicro motherboard and it fixed the problem.
Monday, February 27, 2006, 3:30:28 PM, you wrote: CS> Greg Goodman wrote: CS> [ ... ] >> When freebsd6.0 boots it will hang at the part that says >> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec >> >> The system is running a Supermicro motherboard with dual 3.2 gig Xeon cpus >> and 2 gig ram. Also running an Adaptec raid 5 card. >> >> If we boot up in safe mode it boots fine. CS> Ah, that was a useful bit of information to mention. Booting in safe mode CS> disables ACPI and the APIC, which also means that SMP will not be enabled. You CS> might try hunting around for an updated BIOS for the motherboard, or try CS> tweaking the power-management/ACPI section of your BIOS. CS> However, if you can boot a working system using safe mode, you can also try to CS> use cvsup to update the system to 6.1-PRERELEASE, and see whether that works CS> better for you. CS> Otherwise, someone with more knowledge than I have will need to take a closer CS> look; you could help this process by putting your dmesg output on a webserver CS> somewhere and posting a link to it. If you build a new kernel, you can include CS> mechanisms to break to a debugger, which might prove useful in that you can get CS> a backtrace showing where the kernel is wandering off when it hangs. -- Best regards, Greg Goodman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO Fastserve Network http://www.fastserve.net (213)673-4440 ext 204 600 West 7th Street Suite 310 Los Angeles Ca. 90017 The Net Never Sleeps And Neither Do We _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
