Re: SMP kernel but no SMP detected on Tyan S2515

[Mark Kirkwood <markir_(_at_)_paradise_(_dot_)_net_(_dot_)_nz>]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Network Operations Center wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm burried in work at the momment - part of which is getting caught 
> > up on
> > mail. But I couldn't help but notice your eMail. As I am also running 
> > Tyan
> > S2515's *and* S2518's happily on (SMP)freeBSD. I thought I'd sneek a 
> > peek at
> > your eMail. I haven't got the time at this momment. But I will share 
> > my KERNCONF
> > and anything else that comes to mind with you tommorrow (technically, 
> > a little
> > later today). Till then, best wishes to ya.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yeah, its got me puzzled - am running 6.0-RELEASE SMP happily on a
> S2510... I am suspicious of the cpus themselves (see prev mail in
> thread). I have a pair of properly matched 800's that I will swap in
> later today and see if they change anything.

Its not the cpus - the 800s exhibit the same behavior (no mptable).

However swapping out the BIOS from a another (faulty) board *did* fix
the problem - the original BIOS was a bit of a strange one - had
settings for booting off USB harddrives... (hmm - disabled APICs to make
USB work maybe...).

Anyway, thanks for your help!

Mark




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