Re: Installation of NetBSD 5.0_STABLE fails when SMP is active

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

> Hi,
> 
> I got two new Dell PowerEdge 2970s (both with two quad-core
> Opteron CPUs and 32 GB RAM) and I was trying to install
> NetBSD/amd64 5.0_STABLE (built from sources updated yesterday)
> but installation fails.
> 
> First I tried to disable only ACPI but the system hangs before
> sysinst starts. Next I tried to disable both ACPI and SMP and it
> works correctly. Finally I disabled only SMP and it works too.
> 
> So, for some reason SMP does not work on this host. How should I
> start to debug this?

Can you provide us the dmesg output when it hangs ?

Christoph