From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 11:12:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A671561D for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25095; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:38:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:38:31 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: baskaran.vellandurai@Covance.Com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP In-Reply-To: <5EBF4C59CC50D311832200A0C97714293E2CD4@NTEXCH01> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 baskaran.vellandurai@Covance.Com wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 3.3RELEASE on a Compaq Proliant > 5000 with two processors but the boot floppy is not recognizing > the second processor. > > Can Release 3.3 run in SMP mode on this machine? > If not can it safely run using just one processor since there is > no way to disable the second processor in the BIOS. > > Please HELP! Thanks. Please wrap lines at 70 characters. :) Ok, the boot floppies aren't compiled for dual processor machines last I checked, you'll have to uncomment some lines from the GENERIC kernel and recompile to get it going with the second CPU. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message