Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:55:04 +0000 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE Message-ID: <E18vbDs-0009QN-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <000701c2ed80$0a96ffa0$0100a8c0@Elrond>
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> I've got a new compaq DL380G3 with dual 2.8Ghz xeons and 2GB of ram > installed from a FreeBSD 4.8-RC1 cd and cvsup'd and make world to -stable, > which all worked fine. However as soon as I SMP support to the kernel and For Compaq's in general you want to set the operating system iin the BIOS to Novell Netware SMP or else it doesnt work right. I havent yet seen a Compaq server that will boot SMP if you dont do this. Mind you, if yours is booting then this may not help as the symtomn I have seen is that it just locks up when trying to start the 2nd CPU. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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