Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:16:23 -0800 From: Lucas Wang <lucas@cs.ucla.edu> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making installworld got stuck on SunFire v20z (Freebsd 8.0) Message-ID: <8F551093-B976-488E-AC72-68C2A6D7CA8C@cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <hlq0jf$tbs$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <F4D80A0B-2DFD-46C7-97FF-4F16E116AF15@cs.ucla.edu> <hlq0jf$tbs$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Thanks for your reply. I'll give it a try. Lucas On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Lucas Wang wrote: >> I tried to install Freebsd 8.0 on one of our lab machines, which is >> SunFire v20z. After successfully installing it from CD, I followed = the >> following steps trying to update the kernel and world: >> cvsup >> make buildworld >> make buildkernel >> make installkernel >> reboot >> mergemaster -p >> make installworld >> Everything was fine until the `make installworld` process run for a = while and then got stuck, after that it won't respond to Ctrl-C. When I = tried to login from another tty, it doesn't respond either. I even tried = installing the machine from scratch >> several times, and at different times it got stuck when installing = different libraries. I would really appreciate any ideas about why this = could happen or how >> to solve it. >=20 > If you have an AMD CPU of a recent generation, Try adding >=20 > vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=3D0 >=20 > to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting. This disables Superpages - there = is a CPU bug on some of those. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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