If you can, instead of disabling the cores in the BIOS, try to boot -kvd (kmdb w/ debug), and at the kmdb prompt, type “use_mp/W 0” to set use_mp to 0, then “:c” to continue the boot process.
From: Robert Fisher <[email protected]> Reply: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: July 21, 2018 at 5:03:32 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard? > t seems that there were three BIOS updates since your original February post > regarding the motherboard. Perhaps you can take a chance updating to the > latest BIOS? I already tried that. No difference. > Or perhaps you can downgrade to a known working one? That's the real kicker. I can't. You upgrade above some specific version, and you can't then go back below it. The "working" one was below that threshold. But, IIRC I *never* got SmartOS to run on this board. Only Solaris 11. > How were you disabling the other cores? BIOS. I have messed about with debug mode and kmdb, but I didn't get very far. When I initially reported the issue there seemed some interest in fixing it, but about two days later Meltdown and Spectre surfaced. I would think that H110 and Skylake is far from an uncommon combination, and obviously the ideal solution for everyone would be to fix it. It's clearly something in the SunOS kernel. Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD all work perfectly. Solaris 10, SmartOS, Tribblix and OmniOS lock completely early in the boot process. Solaris 11.3 boots if only one core is exposed. If any kernel genius is interested in investigating, please talk to me. smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription
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