Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:41:58 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Luuk van Dijk <lvd@mndmttr.nl> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice on Tyan dual athlon board wanted Message-ID: <20011008144158.B55077@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <3BBCAF50.4C5452E9@mndmttr.nl>; from lvd@mndmttr.nl on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:49:52PM %2B0200 References: <3BBCAF50.4C5452E9@mndmttr.nl>
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:49:52PM +0200, Luuk van Dijk wrote:
> I have the opportunity to buy a Tyan Tiger dual athlon motherboard
> for about 400 euro, and could use some advice.
>
> - does FreeBSD run on this? (I've seen messages confirming that
> FreeBSD
> runs on its elder brother, the ThunderK7)
I am running FreeBSD 4-stable on one with two 1.2 GHz MP (Palomino)
Athlons and 1GB of memory.
>
> - are there things to watch out for?
Nothing specific that I can think of, off-hand. Mine came up quite
easily. I did originally have a hardware problem trying to run with two
512MB Reg ECC DIMMs. The MB would not boot (never got past BIOS stuff to
try FreeBSD). I wound up switching to four 256MB Reg ECC DIMMs and all
was well (except that I won't be able to add more memory:-().
Note that if you turn on ECC in the BIOS settings that the boot time
increases noticably. There will be significant pause (almost a minute in
my case) before the first display and POST beep occurs...so give it some
time. :-)
Hope this helps,
Bob
>
> Thanks,
> Luuk van Dijk
>
>
>
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