Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:14:00 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Message-ID: <46E11658.8060207@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <025E3A4E-2EE8-4490-A0AD-A068B0EBCDB9@shire.net> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEFACAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <025E3A4E-2EE8-4490-A0AD-A068B0EBCDB9@shire.net>
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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
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