Luke Marsden <l...@hybrid-logic.co.uk> writes: > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:55 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > It seems MCA capability is advertised by the CPUID translator but > > writing to the MSRs causes GPF. In other words, it seems like a CPU > > emulator bug. A simple workaround is 'set hw.mca.enabled=0' from the > > loader prompt. If it works, add hw.mca.enabled="0" > > in /boot/loader.conf to make it permanent. MCA does not make any > > sense in emulation any way.
Many thanks for tracking this one down for us! > Awesome, this allows us to boot 8.1R on Linux KVM with AMD hardware! I'll patch the system on lon-b not to advertise mca this morning Luke. It'll be interesting to try again once I've done this to check if it fixes normal booting without the extra hw.mca_enabled="0" flag. Best wishes, Chris. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
