Re: boot hangs at uhci1

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

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:29:34PM -0500, david l goodrich wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >
> >As it's reproductible, if it was a memory issue I think it would have
> >already found it.
> >It seems to be related to ioapics, so maybe a chipset issue. But I still
> >strongly suspect a hardware issue, or maybe something that changed in
> >BIOS. You may be able to get it running again by disabling both ACPI 
> >and ioapics at xen and NetBSD levels:
> >kernel=xen.gz ... acpi=off noapic
> >module=netbsd ... -c
> >disable acpi
> >disable ioapic
> >quit
> >
> 
> Interestingly, I had "acpi=off noapic" in my menu.lst when I was 
> originally setting up the machine, since it's in the menu.lst of my 
> other dom0s, which are all Athlon XP machines.  This machine, though, is 
> a Pentium D processor, which is dual-core, and the machine wouldn't boot 
> unless I removed the "acpi=off noapic" from menu.lst
> 
> But now, the machine boots with these settings, and won't boot without them.
> 
> It /does/ boot fine now.

Are you sure your Xen kernel is ACPI-enabled ?
Also, can you boot a i386 GENERIC.MPACPI (or GENERIC.MP if it's recent 4.0
or current) ?

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