FreeBSD 6 on a Compaq DL360

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 22 March 2007 01:45:56 pm Tom wrote:
> I'm installing pfSense (which uses FreeBSD 6) on a Compaq DL360 (p21).
>  This is the 1st gen on the machine with 2 800 MHz CPUs.
> 
> During the boot process, it hangs at "SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!".
> After a few minutes wait it resumes.
> 
> If I boot with "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled" it seems to work
> fine. (no lag at boot)
> 
> I've tried setting the machine type to NT4, Linux and SCO UnixWare 2.1
> using the SmartStart CD as suggested while searching Google, but they
> all cause the machine to hang at the same spot.
> 
> Are there any issues with running with ACPI disabled?
> If not, what is the proper way to permanently disable it?

What if you just disable SMP (via kern.smp.disabled=1) but leave ACPI enabled?

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John Baldwin