apic lockups

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:51 pm, Nik Azim Azam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having problem with the latest FreeBSD-CURRENT and
> APIC. The system is an ALR 6x6 with 6 processors.
> Booting with APIC makes the kernel freezes after
> diplaying the timecounter message. Ctrl+Alt+Delete
> doesn't work, I need to reset the computer. It works
> fine if I boot without APIC.
>
> I tried doing 'set hw.apic.mixed_mode=0' at the loader
> prompt and it doesn't work.
>
> -CURRENT with APIC dated on 4th of May works fine.
>
> I attach the dmesg and mptable output from -CURRENT
> dated on 4th of May and the kernel output from the
> latest kernel.

Can you try booting with 'kern.smp.disabled=1' instead?  It may be that 
FreeBSD is just not handling 6 processors well.

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