From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 11:07:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CEA16A4D0 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 11:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fw.mccons.net (pcp03467498pcs.indpnd01.mo.comcast.net [68.86.54.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF01C43D2D for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 11:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@maxbaud.net) Received: from fw.mccons.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fw.mccons.net (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i46I71nd047178 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 13:07:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from root@maxbaud.net) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by fw.mccons.net (8.12.11/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i46I71R2047175 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 13:07:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:07:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Wm Brian McCane X-X-Sender: root@fw.mccons.net To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040506105014.P42041-100000@fw.mccons.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:56:57 -0700 Subject: SMP on an old Proliant X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:07:04 -0000 Howdy, I recently got a pallet of old Compaq Proliant servers (1650s, 3000s and 5500s). I am playing with a 5500 with Quad Pentium Pro 200's, 2GB EDO Ram, 90GB RAID/5, etc; So I installed -stable on it. Built a kernel with SMP and.... no joy. Wiped the install and installed -current... still no joy. I have been unable to get the SMP to recognize more than one processor. I have tried to boot with and without ACPI; With ACPI it says: ACPI-0159: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not get RSDP, AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES ACPI-0213: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not load tables: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES ACPI: table load failed: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES Guess that means that it doesn't have ACPI :). With SMP and apic enabled, I get the message: cpu0 on motherboard And, when I run mptable, it dumps out a MP v1.4 table (I can send details if anyone has any ideas). I have trudged through a ton of messages on the mailing list site, and have found some messages from people using similar hardware (dual PPro 5500 boxen), none mention the failure to initialize the other processors. Anyone have any suggestions? Or at least have it working? It finds all the processors in the BIOS, mptable and Windoze2k. TIA, - brian +-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian McCane represents the last great schizm among\ McCane Consulting the gods. Evil though he obviously is, \ root@mccons.net he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://www.sellit-here.com/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://recall.maxbaud.net/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light" \ http://www.mccons.net/ \ http://pictures.maxbaud.net/ +--------------------------------------------+---------------------------------+