Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:51:59 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Mahlon E. Smith" <mahlon@martini.nu> Cc: sbruno@freebsd.org, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810 Message-ID: <7573B69C-3C37-449A-A27F-5B0B2ED84757@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20100723003611.GA66678@martini.nu> References: <20100722213836.GH15227@martini.nu> <1279836216.2456.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100723003611.GA66678@martini.nu>
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Hi, Mahlon--
On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote:
> Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading
> ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably.
> Similar errors as before if I enable it.
I believe FreeBSD ships with MAXCPU set to 32 by default (check "sysctl kern.smp.maxcpus"); your machine with hyperthreading enabled probably goes past that #, which is why it crashes with the topology error being reported....
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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