From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 15:43:54 2003 Return-Path: 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 EF29D16A4B3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A0F43FCB for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:43:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 170CA72DAD; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1476772DA8; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:43:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Rick Updegrove In-Reply-To: <3F6B4C4C.8040308@updegrove.net> Message-ID: <20030919154123.B46275@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <3F6B4C4C.8040308@updegrove.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq Proliant 5000 SMP won't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:43:55 -0000 On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Rick Updegrove wrote: > I am attempting to get SMP working on this Compaq Proliant 5000 with > FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE but it stops booting at Whoa, this thing is *old*. Its a dual ppro. > "Programming 28 pins in IOAPIC #1" > > I have included dmesg, the stable-supfile and the SMP kernel conf file > here: http://12.246.251.12 BIOS update? can you try rolling backwards until you can get a working system? > The SMP file has the following lines commented out so I could get it > booted again. If I uncomment them and recompile it won't boot : ( I suspect your machine has braindamaged SMP and won't ever work in that configuration due to its age. Not sure if someone wants to fix a 7 year old system that takes 6 hours to buildworld :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org