Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 23:36 +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: >> Hiya >> >> Has anyone successfully tried installing and running FreeBSD on >> Intel's newest 6-CORE Dunnington? >> >> I was able to install 200809-CURRENT on it but after recompiling >> the kernel (taking out WITNESS, INVARIANTS KGDB et al) I found out >> that I could not boot it anymore. What's weird is that I could not >> boot the same 200809-CURRENT CD that I used the first time. Just hangs >> on >> .... >> uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >> uhci0: [ITHREAD] >> .... >> >> I've also tried installing via PXE and it always hangs on the above >> spot, even using a -CURRENT from Sept 26 and PXE-booting it. No go :-( > > Firstly, does it seem to be detecting all six CPUs correctly? Are you > able to reboot with the old kernel and put a verbose dmesg and the > output of "acpidump -dt" up on the web somewhere? It would also be > interesting to know if anything else is printed after the above when it > hangs on a verbose boot. > > There was a report back in July about FreeBSD not discovering all the > CPUs on the board, but there was no mention of hanging on boot. That was me and I actually did discover a similar boot problem later. For me, it turned out that booting FreeBSD after booting Linux worked fine, but booting FreeBSD from cold-boot hung in a similar way. I didn't discover what the problem was with detecting all 6 cores but I might have been a buggy/development BIOS.
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