Re: SMP Panic: no local apic

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Petr Janda wrote:
> > This will give you a more appropriate error message, nothing more.
> >
> > The whole problem arises because search_for_sig don't find a "_MP_"
> > signature in memory. The relevant changes were introduced in FreeBSD in
> > version 1.220 of mp_machdep.c:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c?r=1.22
>
> Well when I boot with a UP kernel, it says 2 logical cpus found. So do we have 
> the same problem?

My guess is that this output comes from CPUID and has nothing to do with 
the SMP boot problem you see. So I think yes, we probably have the same 
problem.

> It would be great if someone ported this newer code from freebsd or at least 
> did something about this problem. I think theres a lot of people that can't 
> get SMP to work due to this problem.

Yes, that would be great.

Regards,

  Michael