On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbee...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbee...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Jeremy Chadwick < >> free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> > This 1950 may predate that a bit, but I'm not sure how to nail it down >>> > exactly, other than by it's hardware components. Anyways, 7.0 does the >>> same >>> > thing --- still wedged. >>> >>> I haven't seen anyone recommend this as a test method yet -- disabling >>> fdc prior to the kernel booting via the loader prompt: >>> >>> - Press 6 at the menu, >>> - At the loader prompt, type: >>> >>> set hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" >>> boot -v (or without -v; your choice) >>> >>> You shouldn't need to set hint.fd.0.disabled="1", since fd0 would >>> normally bind to fdc0; disable the latter and you disable the lesser. >>> >>> The intention here is to rule out the device attachment failures from >>> fdc as the source of the deadlock. >>> >> >> Entertainingly, it does not. Aparently that hint doesn't stop the code >> from trying to attach fdc0 when acpi says so. I suppose I need to know the >> console command to disable acpi and fdc. >> >> but it still wedges at "device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6" with the >> above. >> >> > OK. With both floppy and acpi disabled, it dies calling "start_init" > several times, the last being /stand/sysinstal (which should work). I don't > see it "starting" the other CPUs. It hangs hard... no keyboard working (ie: > no caps lock). > > OK... I finally figured out what makes this Dell boot. The system as I got it has 2 dual core (Xeon) processors. If I remove one processor (so now it has one dual-core processor), Then the system boots !?! ... so there's something wrong with how FreeBSD is going multiprocessor (works with RedHat, it would appear) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"