Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:49:59 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: PII SMP system hangs during boot with ACPI enabled Message-ID: <XFMail.20031202174959.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031123143150.jdp@polstra.com>
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On 23-Nov-2003 John Polstra wrote: > I have an old dual PII/400 system that I'm trying to set up as a > -current scratchbox. The motherboard is a Tyan S1836DLUAN with the > Intel 440BX chipset. I upgraded the BIOS to the latest from Tyan's > web site. It is supposed to support ACPI. I'm using -current from > around noon Pacific time, November 23 (today). > > The system boots and runs fine if I disable ACPI either in loader.conf > or in the BIOS, but if ACPI is enabled it hangs fairly late in the > boot, right after these messages: > > lo0: bpf attached > acpi_cpu0: set speed to 100.0% > acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0% > > It's not a totally solid hang. For instance, the scroll lock key > works and allows me to scroll forward and backward through the > syscons output. > > I've attached the verbose boot messages. Is this system Just Too Old? Try http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_irq.patch -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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