amd64/164457: [install] Can' t install FreeBSD 9.0 (amd64) on HP Blade (ProLiant BL465c G1 )

[Ewald Jenisch]

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From: Ewald Jenisch <a at jenisch.at>
To: Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>
Cc: <bug-followup at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: amd64/164457: [install] Can&#39;t install FreeBSD 9.0 (amd64) on HP Blade (ProLiant BL465c G1 )
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:45:21 +0100

 On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:45:23AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
 > 
 > I suspect that your problem might be related to the recent eventtimers changes.
 > Could you please try playing with setting the following tunables on the loader
 > prompt (via 'set' command)?
 > 
 > kern.eventtimer.periodic=1
 > kern.eventtimer.timer="LAPIC"
 > 
 
 Hi Andriy,
 
 This neatly did the trick! :-) In setting both values I was able to boot
 off the install-CD. After installation I had to make sure both of these
 settings end up in /boot/loader.conf so the machine comes up.
 
 Unfortunately I've now got another problem: When doing a "sync" this 
 command obviously doesn't terminate (i.e. no commandline-prompt reappearing).
 Could this be related to the same cause?
 
 BTW, Any documentation as to what these two settings you mentioned actually do?
 
 Thanks for your help!
 -ewald