6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot
Jo Rhett
jrhett at netconsonance.com
Fri Oct 24 12:05:45 PDT 2008
John, is this perhaps the problem seen with 7.0, discussed here?
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-05/msg00437.html
On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> Has anyone filed a PR on this problem, or contacted John Baldwin?
>>
>> Yes, but debugging these hangs is very non-trivial. It likely
>> involves
>> disassembling the BIOS and trying to see where it can get stuck in
>> a loop.
>
>
> John, is there anything I can do to provide you with more useful
> information about this problem?
>
> The board is a Tyan S2720
> 2 2.66G Intel Processors
> 4 Gigabytes of RAM
> 2 36G ST336607LC Cheetah drives
>
> While playing around randomly I found something interesting. If the
> keyboard is attached while booting, you get the problem I reported
> before:
>
>> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.con
>> \
>
>
> But if you boot without a keyboard it gets beyond that point and then
>
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pci0b
>
>
> Fatal trap 12; page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
>
> ...a bunch of other stuff. I can't capture this because I can't
> type fast enough. Also noteworthy, I can't hit "6" to set console
> to comconsole so that I could cut/paste this. It really seems like
> there are major problems around the keyboard. (and no such problems
> with 6.3)
>
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