> Ok. Seems the APIC interrupt controller signals an > error interrupt as soon as interrupts are enabled > after initializing the APIC... > > > You should probably file a new bug at > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/ > as this seems to be a new problem.
Will do. The strange thing is that this exact motherboard and CPU combination is the one used by Constantin for his "Small and Energy-Efficient OpenSolaris Home Server": http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/a_small_and_energy_efficient Something must be different that is causing me to get this problem and not him. > A possible workaround might be to disable the pcplusmp > kernel module, and run the system in uniprocessor mode. > Instructions to disable pcplusmp can be found in the > workaround section for bug 1253669 > "pcplusmp: need to support second I/O APIC or I/O > APIC with more than 16 entries" > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=1253669 Thanks. I've done that, and the system is now running fine in uniprocessor mode. I didn't need to do the kadb stuff, as I had actually managed to install the system since my previous post. The installed system ran, just rather slowly. (E.g. disk reads were getting 3.5 MB/s instead of the 78 they get now.) The kadb method will no doubt be a better way to install, but for the curious here is what I did: I left the system to run for a while with the APIC errors streaming down the screen, and noticed it was reading from the CD every now and then. I pressed RETURN a few times, and caught a glimpse of a prompt to select language (or maybe keyboard layout). By being patient and pressing RETURN every now and then, I eventually got a console login prompt. (I could vaguely see it in amongst the errors by pressing RETURN repeatedly.) I logged in as jack, then typed xinit and (eventually) the X server came up followed by an xterm. Now it was a simple matter of starting a window manager and running pfexec gui-install. The install was excruciatingly slow. I left it running overnight, and I think it took something like 8 hours. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
