From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 12:31:26 2004 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 BF79816A4CF for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 12:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (ol.freeshell.org [192.94.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4D043D3F for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 12:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lukas@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:lukas@otaku.freeshell.org [192.94.73.2]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i41JVMDV023766 for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 19:31:22 GMT Received: (from lukas@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id i41JVMaG016987; Sat, 1 May 2004 12:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 12:31:22 -0700 (PDT) From: LukeD@pobox.com X-X-Sender: lukas@otaku.freeshell.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: MP Config Table has bad signature: \^B X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: LukeD@pobox.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 19:31:26 -0000 I get "mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: \^B" while the kernel is loading. However after the kernel loads I can log in and run mptable and can't find this bad signature anywhere. What does this mean? Here's the dmesg and mptable output: dmesg ------------------------- Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Thu Apr 29 19:15:45 PDT 2004 root@kassandra.drake.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc09a1000. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium/P54C (166.19-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 Features=0x3bf real memory = 50331648 (48 MB) avail memory = 39731200 (37 MB) mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: \^B Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug random: cpu0 on motherboard npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcibios: BIOS version 2.10 pcib0: at pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 eisab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 eisa0: on eisab0 mainboard0: on eisa0 slot 0 isa0: on eisab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 at device 8.0 on pci0 atapci0: Reserved 0x10 bytes for rid 0x20 type 4 at 0xffa0 atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1f0 atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x14 type 4 at 0x3f6 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0x170 atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x1c type 4 at 0x376 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 orm0: