Re: Failure to detect second CPU on IBM Netfinity 4000R

[Bo Lind]

I have tried booting FreeBSD, which should have SMP support per
default, and it also fails to find more than one CPU. And this
particular server is even listed here:

http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ba3294/smp/rbuild/

as successfully booting FreeBSD. Switching the CPUs around hangs the
machine, so all this leads me to believe that it is the fault of the
hardware, not OpenBSD.

Too bad, well, I guess I will have to make do with a single CPU...

Thanks anyway.

Failure to detect second CPU on IBM Netfinity 4000R

[Bo Lind]

Hello,

I am attempting to install OpenBSD 3.8 on an IBM Netfinity 4000R
server. This is a dual PIII 650 MHz machine with 1 GB of RAM.

I can boot bsd.mp / GENERIC.MP successfully, but dmesg only shows cpu0
as being found, no sign of cpu1.

The BIOS claims both CPUs to be installed and working.

I had to disable uhci, as it hangs during boot with a host controller
halted error message. This has to do with an Intel 82371AB USB
device, and since I have nothing to use USB for on this server, I
assumed it was safe to disable it. Am I right in assuming this has
nothing to do with the failure to detect the second CPU?

The server runs fine with the GENERIC.MP kernel, just only on half my
processors.

Any ideas?