IBM xSeries 225 with single processor - can't boot 5.x?

[Niels Piersma]

Jim,

I have the same problem. Even after BIOS upgrades etc. it didn't want to
boot. (endless screens of dumps). In the end I reverted back to FreeBSD
4.10. 

I can confirm this problem occurs on SINGLE processor x225 machines.

%Niels


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
jcaldwell at ymcastlouis.org
Sent: donderdag 16 september 2004 17:38
To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: IBM xSeries 225 with single processor - can't boot 5.x?

I've got a number of IBM xSeries x225 servers, which are dual-capable
but 
right now have only one Xeon processor each. Attempting to boot from the

install CD for both 5.2.1 and 5.3-BETA3 yields the same problem -
endless 
streams of what look like register states, seperated by single
characters 
of the '/|\-' sequence. Doesn't even get past the boot loader. 

Any thoughts on this? I'm in the process of switching all of my i386 
NetBSD and Novell servers over to FreeBSD (faster release cycle, so
better 
new hardware support), so I'm not familair with the subtle nuances of 
FreeBSD yet, but I do have it working on about 4 other machines - 3 
single-processor machines and one dual-processor with both CPUs in
place. 
I'm wondering if the problem might have something to do with that empty 
processor socket, or the fact that it's a Xeon.

-Jim
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