Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:49:08 -0600 From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net> To: "Scott R. Sewall" <sewall@ix.netcom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble booting a SMP kernel Message-ID: <20031110174908.GA93972@just.puresimplicity.net> In-Reply-To: <20031106175845.GE71078@just.puresimplicity.net> References: <3FAA8AB6.90904@ix.netcom.com> <20031106175845.GE71078@just.puresimplicity.net>
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:58:46AM -0600, Josh Tolbert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:53:58AM -0800, Scott R. Sewall wrote: > > > > I need a little help diagnosing a problem booting a 5.1-RELEASE SMP kernel. > > > > The GENERIC kernel boots just fine. When I boot a GENERIC kernel with SMP > > enabled the boot fails early in the boot process. The text from the > > console is below: > > > > Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 > > IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 > > Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #1 > > AP #1 (PHY #1) failed! > > panic y/n? [y] n > > <snip> > > APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > > [system is locks up at this point, no more messages] > > > > Also fails to boot a FreeBSD 4.4 SMP kernel, which leads me to beleive > > it's a hardware > > problem. > > > > Is this indicative of a failed processor or is it the motherboard? > > > > Hardware is a Tyan Thunder LE-T, BIOS v1.06, Dual Pentium III 1133 MHz, > > 2GB RAM. > > > > Any advise on diagnosing the problem is greatly appreciated. > > > > -- Scott > > No advice, but I experienced this exact problem last night. I'm running a Tyan > Tiger LE motherboard, 2x PIII 733, 512M RAM and various other bits. It hangs > in the exact same spot as yours does, which isn't surprising considering both > motherboards use essentially the same chipset. > > This machine has ran with 4.x in the past, as well as an older 5-CURRENT, but > I don't have timeframes for either. > > I'm fairly certain it's not a hardware problem. Google turns up a few other > people with the same problem, so I don't think we're alone. I was going to > fire off an e-mail to the lists today, but figured it would be best just to > chime in with a "me too" since you've already got one in. > > Thanks, > Josh To follow up, I tried the latest -CURRENT build from current.freebsd.org. The new SMP arrangement works great and the kernel boots fine on the machine, but I couldn't continue the install once I got past drive partitioning due to some missing devices related to the Promise IDE RAID array. So, as it stands, -RELEASE won't run in SMP and -CURRENT will, but -CURRENT won't install on my machine. Of course, I put all of about five minutes' worth of effort in to it... Any other ideas? Thanks, Josh
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