Nick Sayer stated:
: I recently set up a machine to act as a remote bridge for a remote
: office. The machine has a couple of problems. I can workaround them, but
: they're annoying. It occurs to me that the cause may be that it is an
: SMP machine, by nature, but it only has 1 processor installed and the
: kernel does not have SMP stuff turned on.
:
: The two problems are:
:
: 1. When I reboot the machine, it never actually reboots. The screen
: clears after FreeBSD says it's going to reboot, but you never see the
: BIOS again.
Is this a Digital PC? I see this with all of my Digital-branded
PCs (all uniprocessor though). I acutally have to do a shutdown -h
or -p and power cycle it. It is a royal PITA (I cannot remote
boot any of them).
: Does anyone think that setting up a non-SMP kernel on an SMP motherboard
: (but with only one processor installed) might have anything to do with
: this?
It should treat it like a UP machine (in theory).
S
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