5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

From: Alex Burke (alexjeffburke_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

    Hi,

    I wasnt quite sure what to call this problem.

    I am running FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE on a quad Pentium Pro IBM Netfinity
    7000 system, and since the GENERIC kernel does not come SMP enabled I
    compiled a kernel with SMP support and drivers for networks card and
    SCSI RAID adapter built into it (not loaded as modules). This build
    happens fine under the original GENERIC kernel.

    Afterwards, since that machine is quite powerful and its destined to
    be a unix server I wanted to compile a kernel for another box I have.
    I wrote the kernel config file, and started the compilation. At some
    stage the system crashed, on the console it looked as though it had
    tried to reboot itself (3 times!) with various messages about CPUs
    ignoring requests. I dont really understand why under the SMP kernel I
    compiled the I cannot compile another kernel, but under GENERIC it
    works fine.

    I can only think two things, either I have stumbled accross an odd bug
    or my hardware appears to be working fine on the surface and actually
    there is something slightly wrong, although this machine ran the
    GENERIC kernel of 5.2 for a long time without any issues (5.2.1 was
    SMP enabled from the start I believe).

    I apologize if I posted this to the wrong list, I just thought as this
    is related to STABLE this is the right place for it.

    Thanks in advance, Alex J Burke
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