From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 11:12:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9EE16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 11:12:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D2243D1F for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 11:12:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14320 invoked from network); 7 May 2004 18:12:40 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 7 May 2004 18:12:40 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i47ICbNd078858; Fri, 7 May 2004 14:12:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:12:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040506105014.P42041-100000@fw.mccons.net> In-Reply-To: <20040506105014.P42041-100000@fw.mccons.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405071412.59081.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Wm Brian McCane cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMP on an old Proliant X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 18:12:41 -0000 On Thursday 06 May 2004 02:07 pm, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > Howdy, > > I recently got a pallet of old Compaq Proliant servers (1650s, > 3000s and 5500s). I am playing with a 5500 with Quad Pentium Pro 200's, > 2GB EDO Ram, 90GB RAID/5, etc; So I installed -stable on it. Built a > kernel with SMP and.... no joy. Wiped the install and installed > -current... still no joy. I have been unable to get the SMP to recognize > more than one processor. I have tried to boot with and without ACPI; > With ACPI it says: > > ACPI-0159: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not get RSDP, > AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES > > ACPI-0213: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not load tables: > AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES > > ACPI: table load failed: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES > > Guess that means that it doesn't have ACPI :). With SMP and apic enabled, > I get the message: > > cpu0 on motherboard > > And, when I run mptable, it dumps out a MP v1.4 table (I can send details > if anyone has any ideas). I have trudged through a ton of messages on the > mailing list site, and have found some messages from people using similar > hardware (dual PPro 5500 boxen), none mention the failure to initialize > the other processors. Anyone have any suggestions? Or at least have it > working? It finds all the processors in the BIOS, mptable and Windoze2k. > > TIA, The mptable output would be good to see. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org