SMP on an old Proliant

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 02:07 pm, Wm Brian McCane wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> 	I recently got a pallet of old Compaq Proliant servers (1650s,
> 3000s and 5500s).  I am playing with a 5500 with Quad Pentium Pro 200's,
> 2GB EDO Ram, 90GB RAID/5, etc; So I installed -stable on it.  Built a
> kernel with SMP and.... no joy.  Wiped the install and installed
> -current... still no joy.  I have been unable to get the SMP to recognize
> more than one processor.  I have tried to boot with and without ACPI;
> With ACPI it says:
>
> ACPI-0159: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables:  Could not get RSDP,
> AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES
>
> ACPI-0213: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables:  Could not load tables:
> AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES
>
> ACPI: table load failed:  AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES
>
> Guess that means that it doesn't have ACPI :).  With SMP and apic enabled,
> I get the message:
>
> cpu0 on motherboard
>
> And, when I run mptable, it dumps out a MP v1.4 table (I can send details
> if anyone has any ideas).  I have trudged through a ton of messages on the
> mailing list site, and have found some messages from people using similar
> hardware (dual PPro 5500 boxen), none mention the failure to initialize
> the other processors.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Or at least have it
> working?  It finds all the processors in the BIOS, mptable and Windoze2k.
>
> TIA,

The mptable output would be good to see.

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