Ultra 2 SMP stop in probing devices during install

Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot at lphp.org
Thu Nov 27 00:41:58 PST 2003


On Thursday 27 November 2003 09:35, Jens Baedeker wrote:
> i'm pretty new with freebsd. Currently i run a couple of sparc20 with
> OpenBSD. But i want to
> give Freebsd 5.1 a try. Unfortunately i cant get this Ultra2 with 2 CPUs
> working. When boot with
> first install CDROM it recognises the 2 cpus during the bootprocess and
> start probing for devices.
>
> I can stop this probing but then i end up in the OBP prompt again.

I have no idea why this happens, but you could try to boot with acpi disabled.

Antoine



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