Dell 850 Panic on boot

[Andriy Gapon]

on 12/03/2011 19:47 Mark Felder said the following:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Not sure if this is the right place to report this but we have a couple Dell
> 850s at work and the extra one we're trying to put FreeBSD on panics on boot.
> The servers are running 3.0ghz Pentium D processors (dual core) and they've got
> the EMT64 extension. So far it panics with the install cd for these versions:
> 
> 8.1 i386 and amd64
> 8.2 i386 and amd64
> 7.4 amd64
> 
> I haven't tried any others. We needed to get this up to test something BSD
> specific so right now it's running OpenBSD.
> 
> Here is a picture of the console from when it panics:
> 
> http://feld.me/stuff/freebsd/dell_850_panic.png
> 
> Some people in the ##freebsd channel on Freenode said it looked like it panics
> whenever it initializes the second CPU. There's no option in the BIOS (which is
> up to date) that offers you the ability to disable a core or hyperthreading or
> whatever this CPU does.
> 
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Mark,

do you get exactly the same panic message with 8.2 or a slightly more
informative one?  If the latter, then could please provide a screenshot of that?

Thanks for the report!
-- 
Andriy Gapon