Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:10:34 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, jfvogel@gmail.com Subject: Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP Message-ID: <20060606171034.GJ76919@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <E1FnZsk-0007i7-DE@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <2a41acea0606051012r5831971qb3d2fb88e701225@mail.gmail.com> <E1FnZsk-0007i7-DE@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:37:58PM +0100 I heard the voice of Pete French, and lo! it spake thus: > > I had been wondering what 'safe' does differently, and whether I > could fill up loader.conf with approrpiate values to emulate what > 'safe' does and then start commenting them out one at a time. "Safe" disables ATA/ATAPI DMA (so wouldn't affect SCSI), disables ACPI, and disables the APIC (which has the side effect of disabling SMP). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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