From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 19 2:55: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D6637B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 02:55:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AA543F75 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 02:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18vbDs-0009QN-00; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:55:04 +0000 To: andrewt@slipstreaminteractive.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq/HP DL380G3 SMP and FreeBSD-STABLE In-Reply-To: <000701c2ed80$0a96ffa0$0100a8c0@Elrond> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:55:04 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've got a new compaq DL380G3 with dual 2.8Ghz xeons and 2GB of ram > installed from a FreeBSD 4.8-RC1 cd and cvsup'd and make world to -stable, > which all worked fine. However as soon as I SMP support to the kernel and For Compaq's in general you want to set the operating system iin the BIOS to Novell Netware SMP or else it doesnt work right. I havent yet seen a Compaq server that will boot SMP if you dont do this. Mind you, if yours is booting then this may not help as the symtomn I have seen is that it just locks up when trying to start the 2nd CPU. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message