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

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Dec 11, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:

> On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Prudhvi Surapaneni wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a similar problem on Dell Inspiron 531s on (
>> 5.0-RELEASE,5_STABLE,and 5_CURRENT )
>> 
>> It boots fine when i disable ehci at userconf.
> 
> 
> You mean ahci?

He probably does mean ehci, one of the usb controller interfaces.  (The other 
two are ohci and uhci.)

> And what is userconf? I am currently trying
> to find an ISO image that I could get further with than
> detecting cpu0 and then faulting...

See 'man userconf(4)'.  It's a way to disable certain devices at boot time, by 
booting with the -c option.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb