From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Feb 24 03:21:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19807 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 03:21:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bird.te.rl.ac.uk (bird.te.rl.ac.uk [130.246.19.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19795 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 03:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk) Received: from rcru.rl.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bird.te.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03913 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:21:14 GMT (envelope-from tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk) Message-Id: <199802241121.LAA03913@bird.te.rl.ac.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP success on W6-LI In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:58:10 GMT." <199802231158.LAA00780@bird.te.rl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:21:14 +0000 From: Mark Blackman Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Just a quick note for the mail archives to say that SMP > from 3.0-122597-SNAP works brilliantly for me on a > > Micronics W6-LI Motherboard (builtin-SCSI (7880) but no sound) > 128MB RAM > 2 x 200 PPro (overclocked from 180) > > I did, however, have to flash a new version of the BIOS and > go from 4.05 --> 4.06 so that the interrupt assignments > were handled properly. (see http://www.micronics.com). > Forgot to mention that that the 4.06 Phoenix BIOS won't let me boot FreeBSD from either the IDE or SCSI hard drive, so I'm compelled to use the floppy just to get things kicked off. This Phoenix BIOS boot problem has been alluded to in a couple of the other mail messages on some of the other lists. It's an annoyance but a tolerable one. Mark Blackman Radio Communications Research Unit Rutherford-Appleton Lab. Didcot Oxfordshire UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message