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Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:28:30 -0500
From:      "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
To:        "Sergey Lyubka" <valenok@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell Poweredge 1950, boot problem
Message-ID:  <f34ca13c0612181028n27dd2bebo609a89c1510daf36@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <72c3a9570612180904t6dba47das5ea0cbcc34cd2b4b@mail.gmail.com>

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On 18/12/06, Sergey Lyubka <valenok@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, when booting FreBSD 6.2 on Dell Poweredge, I see the following:
>
> 1. It boots OK only in 'safe mode' . acpi is disabled, and only 1 cpu
> is detected.
> 2. If boot normally (with ACPI), boot almost always hangs just before
> detecting the
> harddrive (SAS). If it boots, 8 CPUs are detected, while only 2 are
> under the cover.
>
> Has anybody any idea on how to boot it properly?

You probably should have attached some dmesg.

You may have 8 CPUs because of the Hyper-threading and such. So I
wouldn't necessarily count many CPUs being detected as an indication
of something being wrong...

Cheers,
Constantine.



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