on 12/03/2011 19:47 Mark Felder said the following:> Hi guys,
>
> Not sure if this is the right place to report this but we have a couple
Dell
> 850s at work and the extra one we're trying to put FreeBSD on panics on
boot.
> The servers are running 3.0ghz Pentium D processors (dual core) and
they've got
> the EMT64 extension. So far it panics with the install cd for these
versions:
>
> 8.1 i386 and amd64
> 8.2 i386 and amd64
> 7.4 amd64
>
> I haven't tried any others. We needed to get this up to test something
BSD
> specific so right now it's running OpenBSD.
>
> Here is a picture of the console from when it panics:
>
> http://feld.me/stuff/freebsd/dell_850_panic.png
>
> Some people in the ##freebsd channel on Freenode said it looked like it
panics
> whenever it initializes the second CPU. There's no option in the BIOS
(which is
> up to date) that offers you the ability to disable a core or hyperthreading
or
> whatever this CPU does.
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Mark,
do you get exactly the same panic message with 8.2 or a slightly more
informative one? If the latter, then could please provide a screenshot of that?
Thanks for the report!
--
Andriy Gapon