Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:50:02 +1000 From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@uq.edu.au> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: SMP on Compaq DL380 Message-ID: <426EE1BA.5030700@uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20050426104642.GJ25563@elvis.mu.org> References: <4267A1CF.3080903@uq.edu.au> <20050422190208.M68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <426C93AC.3030907@root.org> <20050425200601.I42718@carver.gumbysoft.com> <426DB58B.5020608@uq.edu.au> <20050425204148.H43358@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20050426104642.GJ25563@elvis.mu.org>
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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms020706000209030902020409 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Maxime Henrion wrote: >Doug White wrote: > > >> >>This appears to be the latest BIOS. Some Compaq systems are known to >>generate bogus MPTables and such when configured to run Windows. You might >>poke around the BIOS Setup and see if there is an "OS Type" field that can >>be set to "SCO UNIX" or "Other" (not in PnP setup probably). >> >> > >Yeah, I've seen DL380 boxes that needed "Linux" as the OS type or the >BIOS wouldn't generate an MPTable with both CPUs. > > Apologies for any wasted time.... This was the answer.... In detail, this morning I went back into the Compaq BIOS configuration tool, and the OS's settable were (amongst others): OTHER UNIX I had set to 'UNIX'.... I changed to 'OTHER' rebooted and .. still the same. There was no mention of 'LINUX' ... frustrated (and sure I saw "LINUX" in the config previously) I did the following... 1/. Powered Down 2/ Undocked all SCSI drives (just popped them out of the connectors) 3/ Booted the Config utility 4/ Selected 'Erase System' 5/ Power cycled (as instructed) 6/ Booted back into the 'Smartstart' config utility. 7/ Followed the 'Manual Configuration and OS install' 8/ Selected "LINUX" (which was now on this menu. 9/ Went to the Smart Array Util, and exited immediately, which caused a spontaneous reboot. 10/ Powered Down 11/ Docked all the drives. 12/ Powered up, and booted back into the Smart Start util. 13/ Noticed the RAID 5 array and config was self configured by the controller. 14/ Checked all settings in the Configutil - noticed "LINUX" was still displayed as the OS type. 15/ Checked the Array config (very impressed that it worked out the config itself) 16/ Exited Util (no save, none necessary). 17/ Power cycled. 18/ Removed smart start CD. 19/ booted FreeBSD and saved the collected data in a similar place: http://scorpion.sorbs.net/SMP/after-erase/ ...and as you can see, I have 2 CPU's and this time they are detected correctly (including the 'odd' CPU type that was reported by the previous config).... For this I hope someone will create a FAQ for old Compaq's, and I'm posting this back to the list so that people having similar problems in the future can reference it. Thanks for all your help people. 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