From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 05:23:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F55716A476 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:23:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DFaulkner@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from bcmelmx.bytecraft.au.com (bcmelmx.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB0013C4C9 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DFaulkner@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from svmarshal2.bytecraft.internal (svmarshal2.bytecraft.internal [10.0.0.3]) by bcmelmx.bytecraft.au.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l3J4okxK086192 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:50:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from DFaulkner@bytecraft.com.au) Received: from svmailmel.bytecraft.internal (Not Verified[10.0.0.24]) by svmarshal2.bytecraft.internal with MailMarshal (v6, 1, 4, 441) id ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:50:45 +1000 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:50:45 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD Install Problem - QUAD CPU Thread-Index: AceCPkpS3rOwDwBCQMSJMdiwpidydg== From: "David Faulkner" To: Subject: FreeBSD Install Problem - QUAD CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:23:12 -0000 Hi All, Have just signed up to this group to see if someone can help me out. Our server details are as follows. Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) QUAD CPU: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to work happily with the QUAD CPU arrangement. We seem to be having issues getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, receiving the following message "panic: madt_probe_cpus_handler: CPU ID 38 Too High" So to bypass this we disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and continue to boot, however a little ways down the track we noticed things like the ethernet adapater not getting picked up, and the big problem - none of the disks getting recognised - obviously posing a serious install problem!. We have since tried a few things, one of which was removing all but one of the CPU's. If we do this, and boot with ACPI enabled, all is totally fine. All disks are found, and I receive no CPU panic error. So it appears to me that by disabling ACPI in an attempt to bypass the QUAD CPU problem, we are causing another issue behind the scenes. The root of the problem now appears to be, that if we have anything over 1 CPU, directly after the kernel is loaded (when booting from the CD to try and install), we receive the error message "panic: madt_probe_cpus_handler: CPU ID 38 Too High". The moment a second CPU to the machine....it bombs out. Any help is warmly accepted. Cheers Dave --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material.=20 E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- ### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses by Bytecraft ###