Re: 6-CORE Dunnington

On Thursday 09 October 2008 10:56:28 Mars G Miro wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Mars G Miro <spry_at_anarchy.in.the.ph> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd_at_codelabs.ru> 
wrote:
> >> Mars, good day.
> >
> > Yo
> >
> >> Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:36:43PM +0800, Mars G Miro wrote:
> >>>    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.
> >>
> >> [Assuming you had not touched any hardware or BIOS configuration
> >> since last good boot from -CURRENT CD.]
> >>
> >> Was is the totally cold boot (with power-off via unplugging the power
> >> cord/switching off the master power input on the power supply) or just a
> >> some sort of a warm or semi-cold boot with power button?  I had seen
> >> the cases where hardware was in a such bad state, that only totally
> >> cold boot was helping to recover.
> >
> > Yes, I do this from time to time when I encounter hardware problems
> > like these. I've tried various BIOS settings and configurations,
> > changing to default BIOS values, I'd think I've scoured through all
> > the BIOS settings, frustratingly because the BIOS takes quite some
> > time to load (well this is a test platform, whaddya expect :-p)
> >
> > Cold-booting does not help either.
> >
> >> Just hangs
> >>
> >>> on
> >>>   ....
> >>>     uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> >>>     uhci0: [ITHREAD]
> >>
> >> Any ways to disable (at least partially) USB stuff via BIOS?  May
> >> be disabling other devices will help too -- try to play with the
> >> disabling the various controllers.
> >
> > I've tried that one too.
>
> Someone mentioned the same boot hangup problems I've had and the 'fix'
> was to boot to some other OS first, like Linux. I tried Slackware 12.1
> (also hangs somewhere during boot) and then Ubuntu 8.04 (am able to go
> into the install screen) but rebooting back to freebsd is no go. Then
> I recalled we were able to successfully install 64-bit Windows 2003
> Server on it. So I booted it to the windows 2003 server just to the
> point where it asks to install it, then rebooted it to the already
> installed FreeBSD.
>
> verbose dmesgs
> of FreeBSD-200809 CURRENT:  http://pastebin.com/f367b3203
> of FreeBSD-20080925 CURRENT: http://pastebin.com/f4338460a
>
> I have also an output of acpidump but its quite huge, pastebin has limits:
> -rw-r--r--   1 mars  staff  - 398105 Oct  9 16:38
> DUNNINGTON-acpidump-td.txt Email me privately if you want this (or I can
> give this to someone w/ ample bandwidth and a web server).
>
> Also it detects only 16CPUs instead of 24. Win2k3 detects all 24.

This should be fixed with the following commit: 
http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/183525

> make -j16 buildworld:  4442.721u 3236.681s 16:29.50 776.0%
> 6064+6203k 539+8258io 15117pf+0w
>
> But I have an HP DL380 Quad-Core Xeon that rebuilds the world in just
> 13 minutes :-p
>
> Thanks.
>
> >> --
> >> Eygene
> >>  _                ___       _.--.   #
> >>  \`.|\..----...-'`   `-._.-'_.-'`   #  Remember that it is hard
> >>  /  ' `         ,       __.--'      #  to read the on-line manual
> >>  )/' _/     \   `-_,   /            #  while single-stepping the kernel.
> >>  `-'" `"\_  ,_.-;_.-\_ ',  fsc/as   #
> >>     _.-'_./   {_.'   ; /           #    -- FreeBSD Developers handbook
> >>    {_.-``-'         {_/            #
> >
> > --
> > cheers
> > mars

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