9.0-RC1 crash on G5 (late 2005)

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:35:58 -0400
Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> mentioned:
> 
> 
> For a test, I installed Linux (debian testing, kernel 3.0.0), and it BUG'd
> with an error "soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s!".  This may be similar to
> what's going on with FreeBSD.  Is there a way to disable SMP at bootup, so
> that it doesn't use the second core (man pages aren't helping)?

I believe setting kern.smp.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf or at the loader
prompt should do the trick.

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