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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:25:37 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        Eric Thornton <gonesurfing@nc.rr.com>
Subject:   Re: AP #1 (PHY#1) failed! Panic (y/n)?
Message-ID:  <421CF4D1.1050807@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050223103623.J7804@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <1109047539.786.10.camel@nicoya.surfbbx> <20050223103623.J7804@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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Doug White wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Eric Thornton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Got this on a reboot tonight. I dont have the actual kernel output, but
>>i pieced it together from the start of a normal boot. It happened right
>>after "ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   8200   >" I hit "y" and powercycled and
>>have not been able to reproduce the error.
>>
>>5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #11: Mon Feb 14 22:16:56 EST 2005
>>
>>Is this a rare occurence?
> 
> 
> It should never happen. This may be indicative of a problem with that CPU.
> You might run the Dell diagnostics on that machine.
> 

I've seen this randomly on a dual-Xeon Dell 450 for >1 year (i.e. lots 
of different os versions).  I believe it's a race/bug in the BSP startup 
logic.

	Sam



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