Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 03:41:22 +0100 From: Matt Dawson <matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: root@maxbaud.net Subject: RE: SMP on an old Proliant Message-ID: <200405080341.29790.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 root@maxbaud.net wrote: =A0 > Guess that means that it doesn't have ACPI :). =A0With SMP and apic enabl= ed, > 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). =A0I 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. =A0Anyone have any suggestions? =A0Or at least have= it > working? =A0It finds all the processors in the BIOS, mptable and Windoze2= k. Quirk of old Proliants ;o) Here's the skinny: When installing BSD on one of these, you MUST select either Unixware 2.x or= =20 Unixware 7 as the primary OS for the MPTable format to be recognized by the= =20 OS. If you are doing the SmartStart thing, select one of these from the lis= t=20 of OSes. If not, hit <F10> when the two beeps sound and set it in the "BIOS= "=20 by running through the hardware configuration, selecting change settings an= d=20 scrolling through the configuration. Make sure you have the latest RomPAQ=20 installed (IIRC this will be a 1999 date, but I could be wrong). Also, don't forget that you will only see 16MB of memory in the dmesg until= =20 you build a kernel with the options MAXMEM "(2048*1024)" (check the format = of=20 this - I now have a 6500 that doesn't need it) line in the kernel config fi= le=20 since Proliants of that era don't report the memory correctly, at least my= =20 old 5000 doesn't. =2D --=20 Matt Dawson. =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAnEjWAmT9uY8euiIRAtfDAJ9JrQUYPnysAORHCq+E+OuQtehvlACeK/ZP h9R6ppkoAn8moacbSO7Q9Vo=3D =3DaUcD =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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