Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:33:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Greg Goodman <greg@fastserve.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 problems Message-ID: <20060227233303.GA88657@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <44038B94.7090409@mac.com> References: <122-2030100400.20060227151635@fastserve.net> <44038B94.7090409@mac.com>
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--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:30:28PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Greg Goodman wrote: > [ ... ] > > When freebsd6.0 boots it will hang at the part that says > > Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec > >=20 > > The system is running a Supermicro motherboard with dual 3.2 gig Xeon c= pus > > and 2 gig ram. Also running an Adaptec raid 5 card. > >=20 > > If we boot up in safe mode it boots fine. >=20 > Ah, that was a useful bit of information to mention. Booting in safe mode > disables ACPI and the APIC, which also means that SMP will not be enabled= . You > might try hunting around for an updated BIOS for the motherboard, or try > tweaking the power-management/ACPI section of your BIOS. >=20 > However, if you can boot a working system using safe mode, you can also t= ry to > use cvsup to update the system to 6.1-PRERELEASE, and see whether that wo= rks > better for you. Or you can just download the 6.1-PRERELEASE install media and see if that will boot. Kris --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEA4wvWry0BWjoQKURAlyMAJ92xw6qwCqpAUBalRfV2jmx32fpdgCfTTwn YW7WORD3/kCBtBoRGGjKz2I= =amin -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS--
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