Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 17:39:27 -0600 From: "Thatcher Hubbard" <hubbardj@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: More server config questions... Message-ID: <000201bf71c4$92377560$4501a8c0@tellico>
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If anyone who does respond to these wouldn't mind sending me a copy directly I'd appreciate it. I used to track the list, but the volume got too high for me to go through all of them every day. So I've still got this Compaq Proliant 6500. I installed 3.4-RELEASE onto one of the hard disks just to see how some of the kernel configuration options would work. I ran into a couple of problems. First, I enabled multiprocessor support with these lines: options SMP options APIC_IO options NCPU=2 options NBUS=3 options NAPIC=1 options NINTR=44 This is what mptable indicated I should use. For some reason, after building and rebooting, the kernel only scan NBUS-2 pci busses (1 in this case). My PCI NIC is in the fifth PCI slot on the mb, and it doesn't get picked up. So I bump NBUS up to 7, build and boot. It scans all five PCI busses all right, but I get a device timeout when I try to use the NIC. I moved the NIC into the first slot, and set NBUS back to 3, and it works now, but what happens when I try to add PCI cards (like a RAID controller?) I did notice a line during bootup that said something like 'nxbushigh_fix : bad number of buses 255, setting to 1". Is the intel chipset in this thing incompatible with FreeBSD? A more minor issue is this : when I put options "VM86" in the config file, build and boot, it quits because the RAM values don't match up. Is this something that happens when you go over 128MB? Do I have to hardwire the amount of RAM into the kernel config somewhere? Again, thanks to any who read this and respond, your help is appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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