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Date:      Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:30:14 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell 850 Panic on boot
Message-ID:  <4D7BBBB6.4060004@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.vr8rongy34t2sn@skeletor.feld.me>
References:  <op.vr8rongy34t2sn@skeletor.feld.me>

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on 12/03/2011 19:47 Mark Felder said the following:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Not sure if this is the right place to report this but we have a couple Dell
> 850s at work and the extra one we're trying to put FreeBSD on panics on boot.
> The servers are running 3.0ghz Pentium D processors (dual core) and they've got
> the EMT64 extension. So far it panics with the install cd for these versions:
> 
> 8.1 i386 and amd64
> 8.2 i386 and amd64
> 7.4 amd64
> 
> I haven't tried any others. We needed to get this up to test something BSD
> specific so right now it's running OpenBSD.
> 
> Here is a picture of the console from when it panics:
> 
> http://feld.me/stuff/freebsd/dell_850_panic.png
> 
> Some people in the ##freebsd channel on Freenode said it looked like it panics
> whenever it initializes the second CPU. There's no option in the BIOS (which is
> up to date) that offers you the ability to disable a core or hyperthreading or
> whatever this CPU does.
> 
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Mark,

do you get exactly the same panic message with 8.2 or a slightly more
informative one?  If the latter, then could please provide a screenshot of that?

Thanks for the report!
-- 
Andriy Gapon



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