Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Fri Jul 23 00:52:01 UTC 2010
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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