Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:50:02 +1000 From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@uq.edu.au> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: SMP on Compaq DL380 Message-ID: <426EE1BA.5030700@uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20050426104642.GJ25563@elvis.mu.org> References: <4267A1CF.3080903@uq.edu.au> <20050422190208.M68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <426C93AC.3030907@root.org> <20050425200601.I42718@carver.gumbysoft.com> <426DB58B.5020608@uq.edu.au> <20050425204148.H43358@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20050426104642.GJ25563@elvis.mu.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Maxime Henrion wrote: >Doug White wrote: > > >> >>This appears to be the latest BIOS. Some Compaq systems are known to >>generate bogus MPTables and such when configured to run Windows. You might >>poke around the BIOS Setup and see if there is an "OS Type" field that can >>be set to "SCO UNIX" or "Other" (not in PnP setup probably). >> >> > >Yeah, I've seen DL380 boxes that needed "Linux" as the OS type or the >BIOS wouldn't generate an MPTable with both CPUs. > > Apologies for any wasted time.... This was the answer.... In detail, this morning I went back into the Compaq BIOS configuration tool, and the OS's settable were (amongst others): OTHER UNIX I had set to 'UNIX'.... I changed to 'OTHER' rebooted and .. still the same. There was no mention of 'LINUX' ... frustrated (and sure I saw "LINUX" in the config previously) I did the following... 1/. Powered Down 2/ Undocked all SCSI drives (just popped them out of the connectors) 3/ Booted the Config utility 4/ Selected 'Erase System' 5/ Power cycled (as instructed) 6/ Booted back into the 'Smartstart' config utility. 7/ Followed the 'Manual Configuration and OS install' 8/ Selected "LINUX" (which was now on this menu. 9/ Went to the Smart Array Util, and exited immediately, which caused a spontaneous reboot. 10/ Powered Down 11/ Docked all the drives. 12/ Powered up, and booted back into the Smart Start util. 13/ Noticed the RAID 5 array and config was self configured by the controller. 14/ Checked all settings in the Configutil - noticed "LINUX" was still displayed as the OS type. 15/ Checked the Array config (very impressed that it worked out the config itself) 16/ Exited Util (no save, none necessary). 17/ Power cycled. 18/ Removed smart start CD. 19/ booted FreeBSD and saved the collected data in a similar place: http://scorpion.sorbs.net/SMP/after-erase/ ...and as you can see, I have 2 CPU's and this time they are detected correctly (including the 'odd' CPU type that was reported by the previous config).... For this I hope someone will create a FAQ for old Compaq's, and I'm posting this back to the list so that people having similar problems in the future can reference it. Thanks for all your help people. Regards, -- Matthew Sullivan Specialist Systems Programmer Information Technology Services The University of Queensland [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 01 0 + 0 *H 0r0Z*0 *H 01 0 UAU10U Queensland10UBrisbane1%0#U The University of Queensland1(0&U Information Technology Services10UCertificate Server0 040121233621Z 060121233621Z01 0 UAU1%0#U The University of Queensland1'0%U Information Tecnology Services10 &,dccmatt10UMatthew Sullivan1 0 *H matthew@uq.edu.au0\0 *H K 0HA ~?AJ#0z^TY%L ~3:ܠDŽoӄ'Zբ,pK h0f0U 0 `HB0 U #0&2MA{7XT0 U 0matthew@its.uq.edu.au0 *H ]f*fe 7>Că3$K:C%˜pr0( ;wP@H$U ҷs;#B dYMz9 Z ȥ-Z=53Fl .jٍ \]W)R+,!6Ampz:3 JFwH2LRD"ױTb^#)/xgBRr{(1&fcv@Jpc4fc y{SaU0r0Z*0 *H 01 0 UAU10U Queensland10UBrisbane1%0#U The University of Queensland1(0&U Information Technology Services10UCertificate Server0 040121233621Z 060121233621Z01 0 UAU1%0#U The University of Queensland1'0%U Information Tecnology Services10 &,dccmatt10UMatthew Sullivan1 0 *H matthew@uq.edu.au0\0 *H K 0HA ~?AJ#0z^TY%L ~3:ܠDŽoӄ'Zբ,pK h0f0U 0 `HB0 U #0&2MA{7XT0 U 0matthew@its.uq.edu.au0 *H ]f*fe 7>Că3$K:C%˜pr0( ;wP@H$U ҷs;#B dYMz9 Z ȥ-Z=53Fl .jٍ \]W)R+,!6Ampz:3 JFwH2LRD"ױTb^#)/xgBRr{(1&fcv@Jpc4fc y{SaU1@0<001 0 UAU10U Queensland10UBrisbane1%0#U The University of Queensland1(0&U Information Technology Services10UCertificate Server*0 + -0 *H 1 *H 0 *H 1 050427005002Z0# *H 1)C=5[ 50wOp"Y0R *H 1E0C0 *H 0*H 0 *H @0+0 *H (0 +71001 0 UAU10U Queensland10UBrisbane1%0#U The University of Queensland1(0&U Information Technology Services10UCertificate Server*0 *H 101 0 UAU10U Queensland10UBrisbane1%0#U The University of Queensland1(0&U Information Technology Services10UCertificate Server*0 *H @p w PEze2+J&23vlz}7%݂ qJmkh> ?help
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