i386/103697: Upgrade to 6.2 STABLE hangs on reboot on SMP Dell PowerEdge 1750

[Ruslan Ermilov]

The following reply was made to PR i386/103697; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: Sean Benoit <sean at digital-jungle.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/103697: Upgrade to 6.2 STABLE hangs on reboot on SMP Dell PowerEdge 1750
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:11:24 +0400

 On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:57:51PM +0000, Sean Benoit wrote:
 > I CVSUP'd two Dell PowerEdge 1750 dual Xeon 2.4GHz FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE servers.
 > Following the CVSUP I rebooted into single user mode and installed the new kernel
 > and installworld. On subsequent reboot the system hung while detecting CPU #2
 > and would not continue. Noticed that the build was 6.2 PRE-RELEASE. I can still
 > boot into safe mode. Alternatively, I can boot into default mode by disabling
 > the second CPU in the Dell BIOS. Please help.
 > 
 Does the problem persist with sys/i386/i386/local_apic.c rev. 1.17.2.9?
 
 : revision 1.17.2.9
 : date: 2006/09/26 16:08:29;  author: sobomax;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -12
 : Revert 1.17.2.8, which reportedly causes problems on some hardware.
 : 
 : Approved by:    re
 : Reported by:    glebius
 
 
 Cheers,
 -- 
 Ruslan Ermilov
 ru at FreeBSD.org
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