On Monday 14 August 2006 04:45, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > 2006/8/13, Michael Landin Hostbaek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Arjan van Leeuwen (avleeuwen) writes: > > > I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 on an IBM xSeries 336 > > machine > > > with dual Xeons 3.2GHz installed. > > > > > > The installation was successful, but > > > if I try to boot the SMP kernel, it hangs after detection of SCSI and > > ATA > > > devices (possibly when doing the initialization of the mpt0 RAID > > controller, > > > or when it tries to start the second CPU?). > > > > > > > I've just had a similar problem with an IBM xSeries 232 - it would not > > boot with apic enabled.. I chased the problem down to the network > > adapter (fxp) - and when disabling the planar ethernet in BIOS it would > > boot with SMP. > > > Yes! Indeed, the system boots perfectly well if I disable both network > adapters (bge, see > dmesg.boot > posted earlier). However, I need at least one functioning network adapter... > > I managed to get both NIC and SMP working by disabling a bunch of stuff > > in the BIOS, fx both serial ports and also the floppy drive. > > > ... and this doesn't seem to work for me. > > So: > 1) Why does my system hang if I enable the network adapter? > 2) Why does it only hang if APIC is enabled? > > Arjan
Compile DDB into your SMP kernel. When it 'hangs', break into ddb and run 'show intrcnt' to see if you are having an interrupt storm. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
