From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 00:35:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADFF16A4CE for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:35:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C92343D1F for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:35:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id C3218530C; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:35:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id CD7045309; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:34:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 5EF9633C6F; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:34:54 +0100 (CET) To: nelis@8ball.co.za References: <1076397621.274.469.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:34:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1076397621.274.469.camel@enigma.8ball.co.za> (Nelis Lamprecht's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:20:21 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual ( HP ProLiant ML350 ) kernel config ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:35:05 -0000 Nelis Lamprecht writes: > I am trying to build a SMP kernel ( FreeBSD 4.9 ) on our new dual Xeon > 2.8ghz HP server. > Although I've been using FreeBSD for many years this is my first SMP > machine and I'm not having any luck. You'd probably have more luck with 5.2 or CURRENT. Note however that ProLiants are very temperamental machines, and you need to be very careful with your BIOS settings (particularly if you have any PCI devices in the system that weren't in it when it shipped from HP) > I can't recall the exact error but the machine boots up and then throws > out a bunch of errors relating to IOAPIC programming before it freezes. There's nothing we can do without the specific error messages. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no