Re: install/38752: 4.99.63 corrupts superblock

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/38752; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, roy%marples.name@localhost
Subject: Re: install/38752: 4.99.63 corrupts superblock
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:28:39 +0100

 On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:15:04PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR install/38752; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: install/38752: 4.99.63 corrupts superblock
 > Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:10:48 +0100
 > 
 >  More info on this - this disk itself is fine.
 >  The issue is with SMP. By chance I installed the non SMP 4.0 kernel and 
 >  everything worked. So I obtained a -current kernel, /boot and /boot.cfg and 
 >  booted with the -1 option to disable SMP and that works fine also.
 >  
 >  This means that my Intel Core2 Quad fails to SMP on my Abit IP35 Pro 
 >  motherboard with both NetBSD 4.0 SMP and 4.99.63. The BIOS is current as of 
 >  today, compiled on 20080318. For reference, Gentoo Linux amd64 has no 
 > trouble 
 >  running on this platform, all CPUs are active and appear to be working fine.
 >  
 >  The symptom with -current in SMP is now a hang after detecting the disk on 
 >  wd0. init is not reached.
 
 What is the very last thing that the kernel prints?
 
 Andrew