FW: 6.1 hangs after launching CPU on DL380

[Brad Miele]

I haven't tried with a non smp kernel, and given the choice between the 
pause and no smp, i thing i will live with the pause also. I am going to 
try the recommendation of setting the os type and disabling acpi, we'll 
see.

thanks,

Brad
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Geoff Buckingham wrote:

>>
>> I am not sure that this is an issue specific to proliant, but...
>>
>> I just finished an install of 6.1 on a dl380 with dual xeon 3.2 procs.
>> things seem fine, but when it is booting, it hangs for about 4 minutes
>> after the "Launching CPU x" phase. Boot continues normally after that,
>> but the delay is disconcerting for some reason.
>>
>> anyone dealt with this.
>>
> Do you get this with non SMP kernels? We have seen hangs, or pauses on
> machines with ciss controllers during GEOM setup. The length of the pause
> varied with the number of GEOMs loaded. It was ususally around a minute
> with a minimal set. It would seem logical the period would increase with
> more disk arrays. (We only had one).
>
> My own, untested, theory is GEOM is tasting the passX devices provided by
> the ciss driver and becoming confused by something.
>
> Currently we just live with the pause:-(
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