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Date:      Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:50:19 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Worked in RELENG_5, fails in RELENG_6 
Message-ID:  <20051129205019.1E7B45D04@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:52:34 EST." <200511291452.35400.jhb@freebsd.org> 

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> On Monday 28 November 2005 10:46 pm, David Kelly wrote:
> > On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:13 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Saturday 26 November 2005 08:07 pm, David Kelly wrote:
> > >> Per instructions at
> > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-
> > >> debug.html
> > >>
> > >> System is Dell Poweredge 400SC, BIOS revision A06. Boot panics
> > >> with ACPI
> > >> enabled.
> > >>
> > >> boot -v:
> > >> [too much to type]
> > >> ACPI-0237 *** Error: Incorrect table signature - wanted [FACS]
> > >> found [   ]
> > >> ACPI-0359 *** Error: Could not get/install the FACS, AE_BAD_SIGNATURE
> > >> ACPI-0191 ...
> > >> ACPI-0213 ...
> > >> ...
> > >> panic: Using MADT but ACPI doesn't work.
> > >>
> > >> Have not figured out how to "boot -v" with ACPI disabled. That
> > >> would be
> > >> a nice little thing to add to chapter 11.16.1 of the Handbook.
> > >
> > > At the loader prompt, do:
> > >
> > > 'set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1'
> > >
> > > and then 'boot' or 'boot -v'.
> >
> > Downloaded and FLASHed BIOS from A06 to Dell's latest, A09 this
> > evening. No improvement. Also built and installed a new kernel from
> > cvsup this afternoon. No improvement.
> 
> But 5.4 works fine with ACPI enabled?  This is the machine that even acpidump 
> chokes on, yes?  Does acpidump work ok on 5.4?
> 
> > A curious thing is with HT disabled in BIOS FreeBSD still lists
> > hyperthreading in the CPU capabilities.
> 
> Not curious at all.  The BIOS setting just has the BIOS mark HTT CPUs as 
> disabled in the ACPI MADT table (usually HTT CPUs aren't even listed in the 
> MP Table).
> 
> > Oh, and apparently the dmesg buffer isn't big enough to hold
> > everything "boot -v" wants to say. Surely there is a way to make it
> > bigger?
> 
> Well, using a serial console is the best method, but there is also a kernel 
> option for increasing the message buffer size documented in sys/conf/NOTES.

Take a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot. (Of course, this does not survive a 
reboot.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634





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