Re: [Testbed-admins] Panic in HP workstation booting into newnode MFS

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

Sorry I missed the original message.  We have seen this symptom before:
the kernel comes up thinking it has next-to-no memory:

	real memory = 651264 (0 MB)
	avail memory = 110592 (0 MB)

The Vanderbilt testbed hit this problem and I was in the middle of trying
to track it down when...it just stopped happening.  And I couldn't make it
start happening again.

Here is one thing we tried there, but it didn't work.  But lets see what
happens for you guys.  In your /tftpboot/freebsd.newnode/boot/loader.conf.orig
file try setting:

	hw.hasbrokenint12=1

rerun ./setup and then try again.  This is assuming that the node is booting
the "newnode" MFS.  If it looks like it is booting /tftpboot/freebsd/...
then change the loader.conf.orig in that directory as well.


On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:38:59PM -0400, Ben Burnett wrote:
> Cheng,
>       Did you ever get this problem solved?  We are seeing the same thing
> now with new Dell PowerEdge servers.  we did the ACPI disable/enable to no
> avail as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Ben
> 
> Ben Burnett
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> [Testbed-admins] Panic in HP workstation booting into newnode MFS
> _______________________________
> 
> To: <testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu>
> From: "Cui, Cheng" <ccui1@lsu.edu>
> Subject: [Testbed-admins] Panic in HP workstation booting into newnode MFS
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:39:59 -0600
> ________________________________
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I met a new problem when trying to add new node in our own testbed setup.
> 
> The machine is a new HP Pavilion workstation with Intel Core Quad(core 4)
> CPU at 2.66GHz, SATA disk, 3G memory and Intel Gigabit NIC.
> 
> I am sure I can install FreeBSD 6.3-stable and Fedora 9 on the local disk in
> this machine, so that the hard disk is not a problem.
> 
> But when I PXE it from the boss into FreeBSD.newnode, it went into KDB mode
> with panic error. The following is the error mesg:
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------
> 
> ....
> 
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> 
> /boot/kernel text=0x5d59bc data="" syms=[0x4+0x72d00+0x4+0x8ef01]
> 
> /boot/acpi.ko text=0x44e9c data="" syms=[0x4+0x7dd0+0x4+0xab6e]
> 
> 
> 
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> 
> Booting [/boot/kernel]...
> 
> KDB: debugger backends: ddb
> 
> KDB: current backend: ddb
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
> 
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 
>                                                 The Regents of the
> University of California. All rights reserved.
> 
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> 
> FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Sep 4 08:49:30 MDT 2008
> 
> 
> root@node.freebsd63-node.emulab-ops.emulab.net:
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TESTBED-PXEBOOT-GENERIC
> 
> ACPI APIC Table: <HPQOEM SLIC-CPC>
> 
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz (2666.63-MHz 686-class CPU)
> 
> 
> 
>                 Origin = "GenuineIntel"                Id = 0x1067a
> Stepping = 10
> 
> 
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOC,PAT,
> 
> PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> 
> 
> Features2=0x408e3fd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,<b19>,<b26>>
> 
>                 AMD Features=0x20000000<LM>
> 
>                 AMD Features=0x1<LAHF>
> 
>                 Cores per package:         4
> 
> real memory = 651264 (0 MB)
> 
> avail memory = 110592 (0 MB)
> 
> panic: hashinit: bad elements
> 
> KDB: enter: panic
> 
> [thread pid 0 tid 0]
> 
> Stopped at                          kdb_enter+0x2b: nop
> 
> db>
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> 
> 
> I have tried to enable/ disable the ACPI, but errors are the same.
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions? Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Cheng Cui
> 
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