From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 30 19:31:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA06324 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:31:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06313 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:31:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA03424; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 20:31:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199710310331.UAA03424@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: kingson@excite.com cc: Kenneth Merry , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken SMP support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:33:54 PST." <34591962.E15237A4@excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 20:31:43 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > Hi Kenneth, > here it is... Strange indeed... > > Kingson > > > # mptable -verbose -dmesg -groupe > > =============================================================================== > > MPTable, version 2.0.15 > > looking for EBDA pointer @ 0x040e, found, searching EBDA @ 0x0009fc00 > searching CMOS 'top of mem' @ 0x0009f800 (638K) > searching default 'top of mem' @ 0x0009fc00 (639K) > searching BIOS @ 0x000f0000 > searching extended BIOS @ 0x000e0000 > > MP FPS NOT found, There is NO way this machine will run an SMP kernel if it can't find the MP table! Remove: options DDB_UNATTENDED this will allow you to see the problem, which will be a complaint about the missing MP table. If this machine used to run SMP, then the BIOS has been changed, or the hardware has been changed or gone south... -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD