From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 00:41:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC89516A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:41:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lphp.org (APastourelles-107-1-13-97.w80-11.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.11.65.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE24843FB1 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:41:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajacoutot@lphp.org) Received: from freebsd (modem214.metz.imaginet.fr [195.68.12.214] (may be forged)) by mail.lphp.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAR8chVc007562; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:38:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ajacoutot@lphp.org) From: Antoine Jacoutot To: "Jens Baedeker" , Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:43:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311270943.05057.ajacoutot@lphp.org> Subject: Re: Ultra 2 SMP stop in probing devices during install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 08:41:58 -0000 On Thursday 27 November 2003 09:35, Jens Baedeker wrote: > i'm pretty new with freebsd. Currently i run a couple of sparc20 with > OpenBSD. But i want to > give Freebsd 5.1 a try. Unfortunately i cant get this Ultra2 with 2 CPUs > working. When boot with > first install CDROM it recognises the 2 cpus during the bootprocess and > start probing for devices. > > I can stop this probing but then i end up in the OBP prompt again. I have no idea why this happens, but you could try to boot with acpi disabled. Antoine