On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:27:14PM -0500, david l goodrich wrote:
> i assume this is not supposed to cause a kernel panic.
> 
> i added "acpi=off" to the kernel line in menu.lst, entered "disable 
> acpi" and "quit" in userconf, and then got about fifteen lines further 
> before it panicked
> 
> uc> quit
> Continuing...
> mainbus 0 (root)
> mainbus0: scanning 0x9fc00 to 0x9fff0 for MP signature
> mainbus0: scanning 0x9f800 to 0x9fbf0 for MP signature
> mainbus0: scanning 0xf0000 to 0xffff0 for MP signature
> mainbus0: MP floating pointer found in bios at 0xfe680
> mainbus0: MP config table at 0xfe690, 64 bytes long
> cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
> cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
> ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 2 (I/O APIC)
> ioapic0: pa 0xfec00000PHYSDEVOP_APIC_READ ret -22
> panic: PHYSDEVOP_APIC_READ
> Stopped in pid 0.1 (swapper) at netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x4     popl  %ebp
> db>
> 

there's something really bad going on this hardware.

> i'll leave it at the db> prompt for now, let me know if there's any 
> information that could be helpful, but 'ps' just listed swapper.
> 
> >
> >what's interesting is that it can't register some interrupts with APCI.
> >Did you change something, like adding a PCI adapter ?
> >
> 
> scout's honor, all I did was shut the machine down, unplug it, move it 
> 15 feet, and plug it in again.  i haven't added hardware in a few weeks. 
>  The only PCI adapter in there is an fxp(4) network card.

I wonder if the hardware could have suffered from the move. I'd first
try to run a memtest

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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