Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:38:55 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: jfvogel@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP Message-ID: <E1FnI6R-0003aM-3o@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0606050919p17efd6cfva55113b19d105815@mail.gmail.com>
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> You say you can boot 'safe', can you boot with just ACPI disabled? Not using an SMP kernel, no. I did another experiment though, I installed amd64 onto an IDe drive, and that will boot SMP with APCI disabled, but still only recognises a single processor. > One suggestion, boot in SAFE or non-ACPI, then do a pciconf -l and > look for pci devices that are unknown. At least that will give more > evidence. O.K, will give that a shot later this evening. > Hard to say if its ACPI or PCI related. Uh, you did make sure you > have the latest BIOS for your motherboard right? Yup - first thing I did. I also asked if other people are using this, and Soren apparently uses it (for amd64), so it preseumably does work! -pete.
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