[OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic with Intel i7-2670QM CPU (HP EliteBook 8560w)

[Jason Matthews]

i would start even more conservatively and disable speed step in the bios first and then more on to the other suggestions.  i am not a fan of speedstep in general. 

j. 


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On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Bryan N Iotti <ironsides.medvet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe you could try disabling ACPI in BIOS if possible, or otherwise use the acpi-user-options=0x2 at boot.
> 
> Read here for more info on disabling ACPI on boot:
> 
> https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/configuring_solaris_acpi_at_boot
> 
> BTW and OT, I hadn't even thought that attaching an image to message here might have been bad etiquette/netiquette, so I apologize for that.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> 
> On 02/13/12 06:39 PM, Geoff Simmons wrote:
>>>> From: "Geoff Simmons"<geoff at uplex.de>
>>> A colleague attempted to boot oi_151a from CD on an HP EliteBook 8560w
>>> laptop:
>>> 
>>> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-321957-64295-3740645-4307559-5071171.html
>>> 
>>> ... the variant with Intel i7-2670QM. He got an immediate kernel panic
>> I've now booted (from an oi151a CD) with the kernel debugger switched on
>> and was able to get a stack trace  -- the crash apparently happens in a
>> call to wrmsr() within speedstep_pstate_transition(), caused by an event
>> related to power management (cpupm).
>> 
>> Since I have no way of saving the stack trace, I had to take a picture
>> of it. In the hopes that attaching photos is not a netiquette violation
>> on this list, I'll try to send it along with this message (it's a B/W
>> PNG with about 23KB, so it shouldn't eat too much bandwidth -- my
>> apologies if this was a no-no).
>> 
>> As it happens, it appears to be exactly the same stack trace that I see
>> when trying to boot Solaris 11 on the same machine (using the kernel
>> debugger).
>> 
>> So it would appear that the problem has something to do with power
>> management, and might be related to some known bugs concerning cpupm:
>> 
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/423
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/1333
>> 
>> But the solutions/workarounds involve editing /etc/power.conf. I'm
>> trying to get OI to boot up in the first place, and I couldn't edit a
>> file on CD anyway. What I want to do is install OI, so I'll need to be
>> able to boot an installer before I can get to fixing up the installed
>> configuration.
>> 
>> Any ideas? Does this warrant filing a new issue at illumos.org?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Geoff
>> 
>> 
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