Re: 8.1-Current installation panic

I have a fix already. Please install with SMP disabled so that I can  
give you the fix for testing. I'm reluctant to commit it this close to  
release without knowing if it fixes the problem.
FYI


-- 
Marcel

On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:08 AM, "Hayer, Sukhjinder" <sukhjinder.hayer_at_hp.com 
 > wrote:

> Marcel,
> Thanks for your reply. But I really don't want to  turn off the SMP.  
> Since I will
> Be debugging a problem which happens on a mutiprocessor platform .  
> So if the SMP is disabled
> I may not the exact same behavior . Is there any other possible fix  
> for this.
>
> Thanks
> Sukhjinder Hayer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcel Moolenaar [mailto:xcllnt_at_mac.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 5:26 PM
> To: Hayer, Sukhjinder
> Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 8.1-Current installation panic
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Hayer, Sukhjinder wrote:
>
>> All,
>> I get a panic while installing freeBSD 8.1-CURRENT on IA64 integrity
>> server.
>> It seems that there is something about the logical processors which
>> it's not liking.
>> On the EFI when I run cpuconfig , it shows two processor modules ( ID
>> 0 and 1 ) and For each processor module it show 2 logical processors.
>> Any idea as to how to get past this.
>
> Interrupt the boot and set the following variable at the loader  
> prompt:
>    set kern.smp.disabled=1
>
> This disables SMP and should prevent the panic. In the mean time,  
> I'll look into it.
>
> FYI,
>
> --
> Marcel Moolenaar
> xcllnt_at_mac.com
>
>
>