Re: Today's -current no longer boots on my amd64 machine

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:52:40PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:52:48 +0800, Dennis Ferguson
> <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > I'm not in a hurry, I'll wait.  I was mostly worried this was
> > a problem with only particular machines and that you wouldn't
> > be able to reproduce it, but it now seems like booting a kernel
> > on any real machine (the ones I have, anyway) will do it so
> > reproducing it shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> Alright, this looks to be (again, *sigh*) a GDT issue.
> 
> Just being curious, what happens if you "boot -1" (turn off MP boot)?

On a serial console, I get:
        
bouyer@roll:/dsk/l1/misc/bouyer/tmp/amd64/obj/dsk/l1/misc/bouyer/current/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 8051 MB
avail memory = 7790 MB
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 0x11<memory_size>
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 2327MHz, id 0x6fb
cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1<reboot here>

With boot -1, the boot completes.

hope this helps.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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