8.1-Current installation panic

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Hayer, Sukhjinder wrote:

> All,
> I get a panic while installing freeBSD 8.1-CURRENT on IA64 integrity  
> server.
> It seems that there is something about the logical processors which  
> it's not liking.
> On the EFI when I run cpuconfig , it shows two processor modules  
> ( ID 0 and 1 ) and
> For each processor module it show 2 logical processors. Any idea as  
> to how to get
> past this.

Interrupt the boot and set the following variable at the loader prompt:
	set kern.smp.disabled=1

This disables SMP and should prevent the panic. In the mean time, I'll
look into it.

FYI,

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Marcel Moolenaar
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