Re: quad ppro Compaq proliant 5000 problems with 2.1.106-ac4 was: Re: Any SMP people out there with
Chris Mauritz (ritz@mordor.net)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:20:12 -0400 (EDT)
> From owner-linux-smp-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Wed Jun 24 11:12:15 1998
> >
> > I have a couple of SCSI CDROM machines, but not SMP. If the problem
> > is SMP related, I might could steal a SCSI CD for a bit and do some
> > testing. If it is non-SMP I can test easily... I have machines with
> > SCSI CD's, SCSI cd writers, SCSI tapes (5 and 24 gig tapes on the same
> > machine) and so forth.
>
> > Let me know if I can help here... I'm running a quad P6/200 that is
> > rock steady on 2.1.105 so far, and was up on 2.1.103 for 14 days...
>
> Robert,
>
> Is your machine a compaq proliant 5000? I'm asking this because we're
> trying to make a quad ppro 200 Mhz recognize all cpus, and up to now we've
> only managed to make it boot 2.1.106-ac4, but it only recognize one cpu,
> and seems not to find an IO APIC, just a XT PIC... As I'm not in front of
> the machine (its in a remote location) any hints about proper bios config
> would be welcome.
I had similar problems yesterday. I believe the trick is to tell
the bios you're going to put "SCO Unix" on the machine. I don't
remember which bios option it was. After we changed that item,
the kernel recognized both processors.
C
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