kern/52648: bonnie gives kernel panic in SMP but not in UNI on FBSD 5.0

Stefan A. Deutscher sa.deutscher at tiscali.de
Sat Aug 23 05:11:49 PDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:40:29PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/52648; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
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> Subject: Re: kern/52648: bonnie gives kernel panic in SMP but not in UNI on FBSD 5.0
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:39:35 -0700
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>  On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 02:16:26PM +0000, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
>  
>  > I couldn't tell - 5.1R does not even boot with an SMP kernel anymore.
>  > It hangs hard where the second CPU should be launched, not even
>  > Ctrl-Alt-Del do the trick to reboot the box. (This is with ACPI
>  > disabled at install, but booting with it enabled does not change a
>  > thing.)
>  
>  It looks like there is an incompatibility or bug with your hardware.
>  Perhaps you could try a different BIOS revision.
>  
>  Have you tried booting other OSes on this system?
>  
>  Kris

Yes. DOS and Windoze 95 do boot, but not being SMP aware, this does not
say more than FreeBSD booting and running fine with UNI kernels.

I tried to install RedHat 8.0 but it would hang already with blinking
keyboard LEDs right at the beginning, and the distro CDs I have don't
have anything to create modified boot floppies like in the old days of
RH.


Given that this box was built to run Windows NT SMP way back when, I did
buy a copy of NT on ebay for a few bucks, but haven't received it yet.
I'll report back once I know whether this works.


Cheers, Stefan


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