Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/20/10 01:36, Ivan Voras wrote: Here's the CPU topology (correctly parsed, thankfully :) ), if someone's interested: biggie# sysctl kern.sched.topology_spec kern.sched.topology_spec: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 FWIW, I'm very hap

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Ivan Voras > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:21:33 +0100 > Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org > > On 11/22/10 13:56, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday, November 19, 2010 1:20:53 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > >> I bet these are "legacy free" machines, right? I recently noticed > >> that rec

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/22/10 13:56, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday, November 19, 2010 1:20:53 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote: I bet these are "legacy free" machines, right? I recently noticed that recent Intel chipsets cause incredibly long delays when non-existent ISA ports are accessed, most notably AT keyboard ports.

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-22 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, November 19, 2010 1:20:53 pm Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2010 12:04 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Andriy Gapon > wrote: > > > on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following: > > >> On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn > wrote: >

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/19/10 19:15, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 19/11/2010 20:02 Sean Bruno said the following: What I've seen is that the long pause occurs between the display of the SMAP (boot verbose) and the copywrite notice. The delay gets worse with larger memory maps. How much memory do we talk about? 24

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19 November 2010 18:17, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Unfortunately, the kernel hangs on boot. The loader finishes, the twirly >> starts spinning but then hangs. Enabling verbose booting results in >> nothing new - no kernel messages at all. > > I don't think "loader fini

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Antony Mawer wrote: > If you select any text in the message then click reply, it only quotes > the selected text (not entirely intuitive, but that's the way they > decided to make it work). Ah, yes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23394 There's a sta

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Antony Mawer
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: >> Fujitsu TX300 > > [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while replying - blame it] If you select any text in the message then click reply, it only quotes the selected text (not entirely i

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Sean Bruno
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 09:08 -0800, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 19 November 2010 18:04, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > A similar issue occurred with an HP box recently (in the last 3-4 > > months?). I'd check the archives for more details. > > Yes, I remembered the post by Sean Bruno but then I also remembe

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Friday 19 November 2010 12:04 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following: > >> On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > >>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 > >>> > >>> Andriy Gapon wrote

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/11/2010 20:02 Sean Bruno said the following: > What I've seen is that the long pause occurs between the display of the > SMAP (boot verbose) and the copywrite notice. The delay gets worse with > larger memory maps. How much memory do we talk about? I wonder if it could be the code that touc

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
Ivan Voras wrote: > Unfortunately, the kernel hangs on boot. The loader finishes, the twirly > starts spinning but then hangs. Enabling verbose booting results in > nothing new - no kernel messages at all. I don't think "loader finishes" is correct. Can you break to the loader command line at the

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19 November 2010 18:04, Garrett Cooper wrote: > A similar issue occurred with an HP box recently (in the last 3-4 > months?). I'd check the archives for more details. Yes, I remembered the post by Sean Bruno but then I also remembered people replying they have successfully booted larger machin

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19 November 2010 17:59, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following: >> On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 >>> Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: > Fujitsu TX300 >

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following: >> On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 >>> Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: > Fujitsu T

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following: > On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 >> Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >>> on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: Fujitsu TX300 >>> >>> [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while repl

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 > Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: >> > Fujitsu TX300 >> >> [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while replying - blame it] >> >> Perhaps I am wrong, but isn't the "t

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19 November 2010 16:51, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: >> Fujitsu TX300 > > [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while replying - blame it] > > Perhaps I am wrong, but isn't the "twirly" shown by the loader, still? > Not sure if the kernel does that.

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: > > Fujitsu TX300 > > [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while replying - blame it] > > Perhaps I am wrong, but isn't the "twirly" shown by the loader, still? > Not sure if the kernel

Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: > Fujitsu TX300 [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while replying - blame it] Perhaps I am wrong, but isn't the "twirly" shown by the loader, still? Not sure if the kernel does that. -- Andriy Gapon _

A big-ish machine, cannot boot

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
I have a large-ish marchine, a Fujitsu TX300 S6 with 2x6-core + HTT CPUs and 24 GB RAM, configured as a demo machine with lots of interesting hardware. Unfortunately, the kernel hangs on boot. The loader finishes, the twirly starts spinning but then hangs. Enabling verbose booting results in nothi