Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:37:58PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Pete French, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I had been wondering what 'safe' does differently, and whether I
> could fill up loader.conf with approrpiate values to emulate what
> 'safe' does and then start commenting them out one at a time.

"Safe" disables ATA/ATAPI DMA (so wouldn't affect SCSI), disables
ACPI, and disables the APIC (which has the side effect of disabling
SMP).


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