Compaq Proliant 5500 Rebooting ?!

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 02:56 pm, Jason Klotzer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed 5.2.1 on a newly purchased (off of ebay) 2x 500mhz
> Compaq Proliant 5500 w/ stock parts. As mentioned by a few lists, I got a
> copy of the SmartStart 5.50 CD, booted off of that, setup the machine as a
> "Unixy" machine, then installed FreeBSD.
>
> Everything went smoothly, until I start cvsup'ing my ports and the machine
> reboots. Not only does the machine reboot under that condition, but it
> reboots ever so many minutes (~30-45 minutes). What could the problem be? I
> read another list subscribers similar problem and he solved it by changing
> the Software Recovery option in his bios or something of this sort? My
> problem is I can't find a way to directly access the BIOS config... anyone
> have anything?
>
> Also, in my dmesg, the output only displays one processor? Is this because
> the default kernel does not include SMP support? I was attempting to
> rebuild the kernel, yet the default listed smp as an option...? What's up?!

Does your dmesg contain a line with 'MPTable' or 'MADT' in it?  You may have 
to tweak the BIOS so that it provides the table listing the CPUs for FreeBSD 
to find.

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