Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:37:52 -0500 From: jcaldwell@ymcastlouis.org To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: IBM xSeries 225 with single processor - can't boot 5.x? Message-ID: <OF295733D5.68157B60-ON86256F11.00553A1E-86256F11.0055A150@ymcastlouis.org>
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I've got a number of IBM xSeries x225 servers, which are dual-capable but right now have only one Xeon processor each. Attempting to boot from the install CD for both 5.2.1 and 5.3-BETA3 yields the same problem - endless streams of what look like register states, seperated by single characters of the '/|\-' sequence. Doesn't even get past the boot loader. Any thoughts on this? I'm in the process of switching all of my i386 NetBSD and Novell servers over to FreeBSD (faster release cycle, so better new hardware support), so I'm not familair with the subtle nuances of FreeBSD yet, but I do have it working on about 4 other machines - 3 single-processor machines and one dual-processor with both CPUs in place. I'm wondering if the problem might have something to do with that empty processor socket, or the fact that it's a Xeon. -Jim
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