SMP on an old Proliant

[Wm Brian McCane]

Thank you very much... that fixed it.  This explains something else...
when I first tested the machine it had only 2 processors and a 4.3gig and
I am sure, in retrospect, that it had recognized both processors.  When
I put in all the rest of the hardware and re-installed, I ran the smart
start and chose "Other" for the OS.

- brian

On Sat, 8 May 2004, Matt Dawson wrote:

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> root at maxbaud.net wrote:
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> =A0
> > Guess that means that it doesn't have ACPI :). =A0With SMP and apic ena=
bled,
> > I get the message:
> >
> > cpu0 on motherboard
> >
> > And, when I run mptable, it dumps out a MP v1.4 table (I can send detai=
ls
> > if anyone has any ideas). =A0I have trudged through a ton of messages o=
n the
> > mailing list site, and have found some messages from people using simil=
ar
> > hardware (dual PPro 5500 boxen), none mention the failure to initialize
> > the other processors. =A0Anyone have any suggestions? =A0Or at least ha=
ve it
> > working? =A0It finds all the processors in the BIOS, mptable and Windoz=
e2k.
>
> 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 t=
he
> OS. If you are doing the SmartStart thing, select one of these from the l=
ist
> of OSes. If not, hit <F10> when the two beeps sound and set it in the "BI=
OS"
> 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 unt=
il
> you build a kernel with the options MAXMEM "(2048*1024)" (check the forma=
t 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 m=
y
> old 5000 doesn't.
>
> - --
> Matt Dawson.
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