Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:22:27 +0100 From: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64 List <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problems booting recompiled 5.4-kernel (Was: amd64 does not see all 4 GB RAM on tyan GT24) Message-ID: <b41c75520511090122j4c4a702fl@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051109075701.GA40483@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <b41c75520511081016l3bf7156fk@mail.gmail.com> <20051109075701.GA40483@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> > I have problems booting a recompiled kernel with FreeBSD 5.4 stable. I > > thought it was related to enabling smp in the kernel, but I have just > > rebuild kernel without smp (and rebuild world as well) and the server > > did not come back up. > > > > When I rebooted a recompiled kernel it stopped with calcru negative > > time so I tried to change kern.timecounter.hardware to i8254 in > > /boot/loader.conf, but it seems to ignore my hint. Doing a sysctl > > kern.timecounter.hardware (when booting the original kernel from the > > installation) shows ACPI-fast. > > > > I added CPUTYPE=3Dk8 to /etc/make.conf. > > > > Undo the changes you made to the kernel (or go back to GENERIC) and > other configuration and verify that it works again. If so, that means > you may have made a mistake in those changes. Thank you for your reply, I (allready) did that when I came back to work. The new kernel works now, the line that I commented out and caused the trouble was: # Workarounds for some known-to-be-broken chipsets (nVidia nForce3-Pro150) device atpic # 8259A compatability Now it's activated again and the server can boot without problems. The reason I commented out the line is because the board is has a nForce4-chipset I tried FreeBSD 6.0 a few days ago and I seem to recall that the above mentioned line is not needed in FreeBSD 6.0, but my (own) memory is probably corrupt :-) regards Claus
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