Proliant 1600 with 2CPUs
turker-cremis-imap
tdundar at cremis.net
Wed May 25 02:29:03 PDT 2005
This is just an information only email.
I set OS type to Netware 5 in BIOS and rebooted the machine. It hung in the
middle of start up. It picked up both the CPUs though.
Then I have changed OS type to Netware 4.x and rebooted again. It worked as
per normal.
In kernel I have only "options SMP" set as additional parameter, to support
multi cpu system. I did not make any changes to "device acpi" parameter.
Thanks,
Turker
-----Original Message-----
From: Will Stringer [mailto:will at dirtymac.net]
Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:28 PM
To: Turker Dundar
Subject: RE: Proliant 1600 with 2CPUs
Right, it worked under 5.3. I just moved, so it's been offline for about
a month and I ended up waiting for 5.4 to come out before using it again.
The first FreeBSD I had on it was 5.2.1. To get the second processor
working originally I had to set the OS type to Unixware 7.
I have all of the latest BIOS updates (ROMPAQs, etc) installed on mine.
That was a pain to track down.
The system erase isn't that bad. If you remove all of the hard drives it
should go pretty smoothly. I may try that on mine. Mine doesn't boot off
of the array, I have a Promise IDE card in mine with an IDE drive that it
boots from.
--
Will
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Turker Dundar spewed forth with great vigilance:
> No, Unfortunately I could not get the kernel to see the second cpu. I
> believe the BIOS settings are correct (i.e. it is set with Unix O/S).
> The machine starts up with two cpus but kernel fails to see the
> additional cpu.
>
> However, I remember I saw a FreeBSD document in their web site,
> Proliant 1600 was not listed as the supported system though some other
> Proliants were. I cannot find the exact address of the web page.
>
> Are you saying that it was working with 2 cpus running release-5.3 but
> not with release-5.4..? Is that correct..? If so, that's a major
> problem for the OS. There must be some solution documented around. Some
> people suggests to wipe out the system configuration and recreate it
> which I would not like to do.
>
>
> Regards,
> Turker
>
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 10:06, Will Stringer wrote:
>> Hi, I saw your post to freebsd-questions about your Proliant and I was
>> wondering you have been able to resolve the problem. I just upgraded my
>> 1600 with dual CPUs from 5.3 to 5.4 and found that the second process
>> nolonger functions.
>
>
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