5.1-R-p2 crashes on SMP with AMI RAID and Intel 1000/Pro

[John Baldwin]

On 14-Aug-2003 Hartmann, O. wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> 
> Dear John.
> 
> I go to try an UP kernel today, but I make no promises.
> 
> I changed today these three config line in the running, but
> crashing kernel:
> 
> options                HZ=1000
> options         PQ_CACHESIZE=256
> options         AUTO_EOI_1
> 
> I commented them all out because I suspect them causing trouble.
> But this kernel does not boot anymore, it gets stuck at the same place
> (showing amrd0 raid is ok) as the other ones.
> 
> The nasty thing is I can not downgrade to 4.8 because I used UFS2,
> so I'm highly interested in getting this weird TYAN Thunder 2500 SMP
> system to work.
> 
> I remember myself that the first occurence of those massive IRQ problems
> occured after one of the AMI/LSI RAID BIOS updates, which where necessary
> due to problems with IBM harddrives. Please be aware that I have the newest
> BIOS installed (but the problems where present with the previous ones also).
> 
> I'll send you dmesg output with UP kernel if it works. I remember myself about
> a kernel boot option to force the loader to tell the kernel to boot
> more verbose. Can you tell me this option? I think it will be more suitable to get a
> verbose kernel log than this short one ...

boot -v will give you the verbose boot output.  If you have another machine
available you can boot using a serial console (type 'set console=comconsole'
in the loader and the console will move to COM1 at 9600 bps) and log that output
which wilh let you send it to the list.

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