amd64/108345: 6.2-* GENERIC will not boot Intel PD EMT64 w/ ACPI

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/108345; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Cc: Christopher Neill <chris+freebsd-PR at revolt.com>,
        freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/108345: 6.2-* GENERIC will not boot Intel PD EMT64 w/ ACPI
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:57:53 -0500

 On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:36, Christopher Neill wrote:
 > >Description:
 > The Pentium D EMT64 on a SuperMicro board will not boot with ACPI enabled on 
 6.2-RELEASE (GENERIC).
 > 
 > While this isn't a huge deal (simply boot w/o ACPI from loader), it does 
 mean that some manual intervention is required to both install and run 
 FreeBSD on this machine. Verbose dmesg of hung start attached:
 
 What if you leave ACPI enabled but just disable SMP?  Also, can you add 'DDB' 
 to your kernel and break into ddb when it hangs and run 'show intrcnt' 
 (ideally, let it hang, break, run the command, then continue and let it sit 
 for a while, break to ddb again and run the command again).
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin