hang/panic of 5.2.1-RELEASE installation.

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 28 March 2004 10:52 pm, gubarev at itep.ru wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Friday 26 March 2004 04:54 am, gubarev at itep.ru wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > fresh installation of 5.2.1-RELEASE fails here with
> > > funny symptoms which apparently was never discussed before
> > > (at least I failed to find anything similar). Machine basically
> > > is P4 with 1Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9000 (laptop - see below for details).
> > >
> > > 1. With HTT enabled and almost all devices disabled (via BIOS)
> > > I have a strictly reproducible kernel panic right after interrupts
> > > assignment. The relevant kernel  message is
> > >
> > > "panic: interrupt from missing bus"
> > >
> > > which seems to be from sys/i386/i386/mptable.c. The verbose boot
> > > and panic messages are given below.
> > >
> > > 2. Without HTT and with other devices enabled machine completely hangs
> > > just at "Mounting root from ...". Perhaps this is usual hardware
> > > conflict although I'm not sure.
> > >
> > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Any additional details could
> > > be provided immediately.....
> >
> > Can you post the output of mptable?
>
> Sorry, I see no way to do that - kernel is not loading at all, this was an
> installation attempt.

Drop into the loader and do 'set hint.apic.0.disabled=1' when you boot up.  
This will tell the kernel to only run in UP mode w/o using the APIC.  This 
should let you install the box fine and then be able to boot up and run 
mptable once it is installed.

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