SMP on an old Proliant

[Matt Dawson]

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root at maxbaud.net wrote:

 
> 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.

Quirk of old Proliants ;o) Here's the skinny:

When installing BSD on one of these, you MUST select either Unixware 2.x or 
Unixware 7 as the primary OS for the MPTable format to be recognized by the 
OS. If you are doing the SmartStart thing, select one of these from the list 
of OSes. If not, hit <F10> when the two beeps sound and set it in the "BIOS" 
by running through the hardware configuration, selecting change settings and 
scrolling through the configuration. Make sure you have the latest RomPAQ 
installed (IIRC this will be a 1999 date, but I could be wrong).

Also, don't forget that you will only see 16MB of memory in the dmesg until 
you build a kernel with the options MAXMEM "(2048*1024)" (check the format of 
this - I now have a 6500 that doesn't need it) line in the kernel config file 
since Proliants of that era don't report the memory correctly, at least my 
old 5000 doesn't.

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Matt Dawson.
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