From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Nov 29 15:27: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C348614BCD for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:26:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA28317; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:26:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAANcaGp3; Mon Nov 29 16:26:34 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14432; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:26:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199911292326.QAA14432@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Explanation re NBUS in smp config To: yusufg@outblaze.com (Yusuf Goolamabbas) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:26:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991119100708.6479.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com> from "Yusuf Goolamabbas" at Nov 19, 99 10:07:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Did the usual config,make depend;make ;make install and > reboot. However on reboot, the system said that it couldn't boot since > NBUSSES should be 5 instead of 4. I have compiled FreeBSD on many dual > CPU configs (albeit for the first time on this specific rack server > model) and have never to modify NBUS from its default of 4 to 5 > > Can somebody explain what buses are referred to in NBUS ? > > The system boot cleanly when I recompiled the kernel with NBUS=5 Why can't NBUS be dynamically allocated? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message