On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Jason Craig wrote:
> Here's what I see when I boot with the kernel I compiled a few days ago:
Humm...
I see where the problem is.
I'd like you to compile a kernel without SMP support but with MCA support.
Add:
controller mca0
I'm working on the SMP angle.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.0-19991113-CURRENT #0: Fri Nov 19 08:00:49 GMT 1999
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL.1119199
> 9
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium/P54C (89.96-MHz 586-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping = 5
> Features=0x3bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,APIC>
> real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
> avail memory = 62033920 (60580K bytes)
> panic: unknown bus type: 'MCA'
> mp_lock = 00000004; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 00000000
>
> Boom... Locked up.
>
> When I created the custom kernel config for this machine I did removed
> devices that were not present in my system (as usual), and enabled SMP.
>
> # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
> options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> # Optionally these may need tweaked, (defaults shown):
> options NCPU=2 # number of CPUs
> #options NBUS=4 # number of busses
> #options NAPIC=1 # number of IO APICs
> #options NINTR=24 # number of INTs
>
> A little lower I noticed that there were no entries for MCA, should there be
> one?
>
> controller isa0
> controller pnp0 # PnP support for ISA
> controller eisa0
> controller pci0
>
> Thans in advance,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matthew N. Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jason Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Compile new kernel with MCA support
>
>
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jason Craig wrote:
> > > I have a few FreeBSD machines that I am playing around with now, and
> > > have come across a nice old IBM PC Server 320 with dual P90 processors
> > > and 64MB of RAM i would also like to utilize.
> > >
> > > I am currently using 4.0-19991113-CURRENT generic kernel, and things are
> > > working great.
> > >
> > > However, I tried to compile a custom kernel to weed out any unwanted
> > > devices, and to enable SMP and have have run into a problem. After
> > > compiling the kernel using the standard procedure, I rebooted it, and
> > > it panic'd after doing the kernel config.
> > >
> > > I tried removing most of the entries from /boot/kernel.conf, only to
> > > find it still panics saying something about the MCA bus.
> >
> > Using the serial console, capture the boot messages and attach them to the
> > reply to this message.
> >
> > --
> > | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD |
> > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax |
> > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever |
> >
> >
> >
> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
> >
>
--
| Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax |
| http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever |
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
