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Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM
>>> To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
>>> Cc: User Questions
>>> Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)
>>>
>>
>>> Note that this may well be hardware related: without acpi you are only
>>> using one CPU, etc, so if one of the others is bad it will only fail
>>> when you have ACPI enabled -- even if ACPI itself is not to blame.
>>>
>>
>> Easily testable by running that Other Operating system on the thing
>> which I would have expected Chad to have done.
> 
> Sorry to be MIA for the last day.
> 
> No, I did not test it with that OS which shall not be named.  However, I 
> did attempt to install Sol10 on it.  Sol10 also relies on ACPI btw.  
> Anyway, the same error happened a good way through the installation -- 
> it rebooted itself during the high IO of installing the system onto the 
> system array.  Sol10 uses a 32bit kernel for the installation and I 
> think, but am not sure, that it only activates 1 CPU core.

Then something is wrong with your hardware.  Sorry.

Kris