Hi, I am attempting to get SMP working on this Compaq Proliant 5000 with FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE but it stops booting at "Programming 28 pins in IOAPIC #1" I have included dmesg, the stable-supfile and the SMP kernel conf file here: http://12.246.251.12 (The dmesg I have provided obviously doesn't contain the above message because I don't know a way to capture it and get it to the list because it won't boot) The SMP file has the following lines commented out so I could get it booted again. If I uncomment them and recompile it won't boot : ( # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel # options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O Is anyone else running one of these with 4.9-PRERELEASE ? or What version of FreeBSD *works* with this box? Rick
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Rick Updegrove wrote:> I am attempting to get SMP working on this Compaq Proliant 5000 with > FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE but it stops booting atWhoa, this thing is *old*. Its a dual ppro.> "Programming 28 pins in IOAPIC #1" > > I have included dmesg, the stable-supfile and the SMP kernel conf file > here: http://12.246.251.12BIOS update? can you try rolling backwards until you can get a working system?> The SMP file has the following lines commented out so I could get it > booted again. If I uncomment them and recompile it won't boot : (I suspect your machine has braindamaged SMP and won't ever work in that configuration due to its age. Not sure if someone wants to fix a 7 year old system that takes 6 hours to buildworld :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
> What version of FreeBSD *works* with this box?I;ve run many versions of SMP FreeBSD on these boxes, certainly up to 4.6 - the trick (as far as I know) is to go into the BIOS and set the operating sywstem to Novell Netware SMP. Then it works. I got this tip from a memeber of this list in the netherlands who's name I forget, and it has worked for me on all manner of Compaq servers subsequently. -pcf.