Re: FreeBSD 7.0-current Locks During Device Probe--Solved

Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Dave Frantz wrote:
>> I finally figured out what was causing FreeBSD 7.0-current to crash on 
>> my machine during the device probe. It turns out that if options 
>> CPUFREQ is compiled in, the system will not boot. However, it can be 
>> safely kldloaded in later.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure why my system dislikes CPUFREQ, but I can live 
>> without it. If you guys have any questions or anything, just let me know.
> Thanks for the report!
> 
> I've had problems with cpufreq before, but that was when running gdm, it 
> would lock the system solid if loaded before gdm was started but worked 
> fine afterwards.

The only problems I had were to do with acpi throttling in conjunction 
with cpufreq, which would hang my dual core opteron.  Unfortunately I 
have forgotten the tunable to disable this but you should be able to 
google for it.  Disabling acpi would also do it with a sledgehammer on i386.

Kris