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Date:      Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:06:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      rdmurray@bitdance.com
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.3 SMP but only one CPU detected
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807041100580.19357@kimball.webabinitio.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080618073800.D290F10656BF@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20080618073800.D290F10656BF@hub.freebsd.org>

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I wrote:
> We have some systems we are upgrading from FreeBSD 6.1 to FreeBSD 6.3.
> These are Dell PowerEdge servers.  The one I'm working on now is a 1950.
> Under 6.1 it booted into SMP mode no problem.  Under 6.3, with no changes
> made in the BIOS settings, it does not.  Here is the start of the dmesg:

Turns out the problem was a third party installer that added a line that
disabled ACPI to /boot/loader.conf.

Sigh.

--David



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