On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:24:59AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > After reading INSTALL.octeon, I was able to write miniroot62.fs to a usb, > plug that into the ERL, and perform a normal installation. The problem is > that the installer was not able to detect both cores, so it only installed > bsd.sp (bsd.mp was not an option in the set selection). > > Running 6.2-release. > > I did follow the instructions for setting the coremask=0x3 when booting the > installer, and setting the coremask=0x3 in the bootcmd. It seems that the > installer just wasn't able to recognize that it's a dual core system.
I've seen this, too. For some reason bsd.rd doesn't count CPUs correctly even with coremask=0x3. > To workaround this problem, I downloaded bsd.mp after installation and copied > that to the FAT partition. My ERL can now run SMP, but as you probably > guessed this does break KARL. That's what I did, too. > Has anyone been able to install bsd.mp on the ERL and not break KARL? Not me. Looking into this is somewhere at the far end of my todo list. Not sure I'll ever get to it.
