FreeBSD 5.3R SMP Kernel not detecting 2nd CPU in a HP DL360(?)

[Greg Eden]

On 28 Mar 2005, at 23:52, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 05:48:55PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> It's not finding an APIC table (either MPTable or MADT) at all, and 
>> it needs
>> that to find CPUs.  See if there are any BIOS options for things like 
>> MP
>> Table or 'Separate APIC Table' under ACPI.  Also, try running 
>> 'mptable' to
>> see if it finds a table, and acpidump -t to see if that finds an APIC 
>> table.
>
> The DL380 g3 BIOS has different APIC settings for different OS. There
> is one setting in the main menu and then under advanced options is
> another menu for APIC.

Happy to report the box is now up and running with 2 CPUs. There was 
indeed a BIOS setting along the lines of APIC 'Full Table' which was 
not the default. HTT was disabled which is why there are 2 not 4 CPUs

Unfortunately the ISP's engineer also flashed the BIOS to the latest 
release at the same time so that may also have had an effect.

Thanks for the help.

greg.