Re: buggy ACPI on board versus HW failure Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related: without acpi you are only using one CPU, etc, so if one of the others is bad it will only fail when you have ACPI enabled -- even

buggy ACPI on board versus HW failure Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related: without acpi you are only using one CPU, etc, so if one of the others is bad it will only fail when you have ACPI enabled -- even if ACPI itself is not to

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related: without acpi you are only using one CPU, etc, so if one of the others is bad it will only fail when you have ACPI enabled -- even if ACPI itself is not to blame. Easily testable by running that Other Operating

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64

RE: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM > To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > Cc: User Questions > Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) > > Note tha

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch level. The motherboard is a Tyan S5197 i3110 based board with a Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz processor. There is 4GB of memory and an Areca ARC-1231ML raid card. The problem is that I have to boot without ACPI o

RE: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- > Shire.Net LLC > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:20 PM > To: User Questions > Subject: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) > > > Hi > > I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch l