Re: hang/panic of 5.2.1-RELEASE installation.

From: John Baldwin (jhb_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 03/31/04

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    To: gubarev@itep.ru
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:46:53 -0500

    On Sunday 28 March 2004 10:52 pm, gubarev@itep.ru wrote:
    > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
    > > On Friday 26 March 2004 04:54 am, gubarev@itep.ru wrote:
    > > > Dear all,
    > > >
    > > > fresh installation of 5.2.1-RELEASE fails here with
    > > > funny symptoms which apparently was never discussed before
    > > > (at least I failed to find anything similar). Machine basically
    > > > is P4 with 1Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9000 (laptop - see below for details).
    > > >
    > > > 1. With HTT enabled and almost all devices disabled (via BIOS)
    > > > I have a strictly reproducible kernel panic right after interrupts
    > > > assignment. The relevant kernel message is
    > > >
    > > > "panic: interrupt from missing bus"
    > > >
    > > > which seems to be from sys/i386/i386/mptable.c. The verbose boot
    > > > and panic messages are given below.
    > > >
    > > > 2. Without HTT and with other devices enabled machine completely hangs
    > > > just at "Mounting root from ...". Perhaps this is usual hardware
    > > > conflict although I'm not sure.
    > > >
    > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Any additional details could
    > > > be provided immediately.....
    > >
    > > Can you post the output of mptable?
    >
    > Sorry, I see no way to do that - kernel is not loading at all, this was an
    > installation attempt.

    Drop into the loader and do 'set hint.apic.0.disabled=1' when you boot up.
    This will tell the kernel to only run in UP mode w/o using the APIC. This
    should let you install the box fine and then be able to boot up and run
    mptable once it is installed. 

    -- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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