From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 16:10:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EC916A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:10:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1420C43D49 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:10:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 734 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2005 16:10:56 -0000 Received: from server.baldwin.cx ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Jun 2005 16:10:56 -0000 Received: from [10.4.255.72] ([206.13.39.129]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5AGAicu073579; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:10:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) In-Reply-To: <42A26083.9090805@bong.com.au> References: <42A26083.9090805@bong.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <088a424ae36428ee341b9f68f4334c1f@FreeBSD.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Baldwin Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:51:52 -0700 To: Dean Hamstead X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd on sgi 1200 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:10:57 -0000 On Jun 4, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: > just a quicky > > installing freebsd on some nice sgi 1200s > they are 2ru machines ,dual p3 800, mylex scsi raid > intel mainboard > > freebsd works a treat, except the motherboard > has the strangest quirk that only on cold boots > does it detect both cpu's. warm reboots cause it > to disable the second cpu and thus freebsd doesnt > pick up the second cpu (annoying) > > the same bug is present in all three machines i have > im hoping i can just force freebsd to use two cpus > > oh, i rebuilt the kernel etc, and from a cold boot > the mboard picks up both cpu's and so does freebsd > and they both work nicely. Try disabling ACPI as I have seen bugs with some Pentium III era SMP ACPI BIOSes. Also, it would be nice to see diffs of the mptable and acipdump -t output in both situations. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org