Re: [CentOS] Re: SMP motherboard not recognized SOLVED

2007-07-11 Thread gen2
Jim Perrin wrote: Something here just doesn't smell right. Where exactly in the boot/install process does it die? Given that the IBM serveraid support isos boot linux, I'm a little shocked it's not working for you. HT should be disabled (in my opinion) as it's mostly useless. You might try reset

Re: [CentOS] Re: SMP motherboard not recognized

2007-07-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/11/07, gen2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Great to know it will ultimately work, thanks. I'm up to current bios now, and the "SMP mainboard not recognized" has been replaced with "Found 1 CPU" (or something similar). So definitely progress, but still not there yet. Okay, now that's just odd.

Re: [CentOS] Re: SMP motherboard not recognized

2007-07-11 Thread gen2
Jim Perrin wrote: I've got 4 x345's here at the office running Centos4 with smp just fine, however it did require an update of the scsi controller firmware, and the bios to get things to work right. Great to know it will ultimately work, thanks. I'm up to current bios now, and the "SMP mainbo

Re: [CentOS] Re: SMP motherboard not recognized

2007-07-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/11/07, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gen2 spake the following on 7/11/2007 11:02 AM: > Scott Silva wrote: > >> Is bios up to date? >> Does non zen kernel detect both processors? > > Bios is not up to date, rather not go anywhere near that considering I > can boot to the gentoo-minim

[CentOS] Re: SMP motherboard not recognized

2007-07-11 Thread Scott Silva
gen2 spake the following on 7/11/2007 11:02 AM: > Scott Silva wrote: > >> Is bios up to date? >> Does non zen kernel detect both processors? > > Bios is not up to date, rather not go anywhere near that considering I > can boot to the gentoo-minimal CD and see all 4 cores. Unless I'm not > underst

Re: [CentOS] Re: SMP motherboard not recognized

2007-07-11 Thread gen2
Scott Silva wrote: Is bios up to date? Does non zen kernel detect both processors? Bios is not up to date, rather not go anywhere near that considering I can boot to the gentoo-minimal CD and see all 4 cores. Unless I'm not understanding something there...please explain if so. I assume if th

[CentOS] Re: SMP motherboard not recognized

2007-07-11 Thread Scott Silva
gen2 spake the following on 7/10/2007 8:40 PM: > I'm having trouble with IBM xseries 345/dual Xeon 2.66GHz showing only > one processor. At boot I see "SMP motherboard not recognized". Using > > title CentOS (2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 >