Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:12:59 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMP on an old Proliant Message-ID: <200405071412.59081.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040506105014.P42041-100000@fw.mccons.net> References: <20040506105014.P42041-100000@fw.mccons.net>
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On Thursday 06 May 2004 02:07 pm, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > 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, The mptable output would be good to see. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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