Hang on boot with 4.9-STABLE

[Peter Radcliffe]

Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> probably said:
> Looks like the fix for the APM crash is causing your system to hang.

Correct. I have to power cycle or hard reset the machine to recover it.

The fix in this rev seems to be what is causing the hang for me;
  src/sys/i386/i386/locore.s,v 1.132.2.13 2003/10/17 06:54:00 peter E xp

> I am not seeing this on my system, although I was seeing the crash
> prior to 10/16.

I'm not seeing it on any of my systems other than this particular set
(I have three identical machines), although I don't do SMP on any
other machines.

I might be able to arrange for a BIOS update in case it is being
caused by APM bugs on the motherboard (there is a newer BIOS rev
available) but it would unfortunately take some time since these
machines are in production.

> You might want to drop Peter (peter@) a note. Maybe he can figure
> something out. locore.s is WAY beyond the scope of my knowledge of i386
> internals.

Thanks, I'll do that (Cc:ed).

My system information is here;
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=294853+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-stable/20031123.freebsd-stable

Further information here;
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=383527+386585+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-stable/20031123.freebsd-stable

Thanks,
P.

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