Re: Boot code broken in some way in recent current (Was: Panic at boot)

From: Roman Kurakin <rik_at_cronyx.ru>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:54:36 +0400
John Baldwin wrote:

>On Saturday 21 August 2004 04:35 pm, Doug White wrote:
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>>On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>>    At first I have two SMP system (Dual) one that boots normaly and one
>>>that
>>>goes to panic (the older pc).
>>>   I've setup finaly serial console to that system, so here is more
>>>detailed output:
>>>
>>>OK boot -Dhv
>>>/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x406a8 data=0x1bc4+0x110c
>>>syms=[0x4+0x72d0+0x4+0x9754]
>>>      
>>>
>>Have you tried booting without enabling ACPI?  The ACPI tables seem to
>>think you have two APs and no BSP.
>>    
>>
>
>ACPI tables have no concept at all of a BSP.  We infer the BSP by checking the 
>APIC ID of the CPU we are currently executing on when enumerating CPUs.
>
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>>Also check the BIOS and set the MPTable version to 1.4, and upgrade the
>>BIOS itself if there is an update.
>>    
>>
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>Since it worked before the recent loader change, I doubt this will make a 
>difference.  More likely is that the code picked a bad memory address to 
>install the AP trampoline into for some reason.
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I constantly see effect of moving this problem to other place if I 
debugging problematic one.

rik
Received on Tue Aug 24 2004 - 15:59:05 UTC

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