On Sunday 13 August 2006 13:55, Jack Vogel wrote: > On 8/13/06, Arjan van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 on an IBM xSeries 336 machine > > with dual Xeons 3.2GHz installed. > > > > The installation was successful, but > > if I try to boot the SMP kernel, it hangs after detection of SCSI and ATA > > devices (possibly when doing the initialization of the mpt0 RAID controller, > > or when it tries to start the second CPU?). > > [ ...] > > Couple questions come to mind: First, will it work if you install i386? > Second, > had it ever worked on this system with older releases? > > The reason you dont see the second cpu without ACPI is that IBM does not > have the legacy MP table stuff set up, they require the ACPI tables to do > MP (this is intentional not an oversight).
FYI, he disabled support for APICs, not ACPI. :) In this case it sounds like IBM's BIOS doesn't provide correct interrupt routing info for the NICs. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
