During boot: "Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC" ... and then hangs

[John Baldwin]

On 19-Sep-2003 David Landgren wrote:
> Greetings list,
> 
> I have an HP DL380-G3 with a P4 processor. I upgraded the source tree
> last night to 4.9-PRERELEASE. This is the last server I have that is 
> running a GENERIC kernel, two others are successfully running SMP 
> kernels (insofar as hw.ncpus = 2).
> 
> I copied over a successful kernel configuration file and tried to 
> build an SMP kernel. The new kernel boots with the following:
> 
> Programming 16 pins in IOAPIc #0
> IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
> Programming 16 pins in IOAPIc #1
> Programming 16 pins in IOAPIc #2
> Programming 16 pins in IOAPIc #3
> 
> ... and then hangs. If I comment out
> 
> options        SMP
> options        APIC_IO
> options        HTT

Look in your BIOS and see if there is an option to make it create
a "full mptable".  If so, turn that on and try again.

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