On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Pete French wrote:
If just non-ACPI isnt sufficient, the other thing SAFE does is turn
off disk DMA. I have an as-yet unreleased system that has this
same type of issue, and the problem is that two PCI device ID's
are not recognized, so maybe that will be your problem.
So,
On 6/7/06, Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If just non-ACPI isnt sufficient, the other thing SAFE does is turn
> off disk DMA. I have an as-yet unreleased system that has this
> same type of issue, and the problem is that two PCI device ID's
> are not recognized, so maybe that will be yo
> If just non-ACPI isnt sufficient, the other thing SAFE does is turn
> off disk DMA. I have an as-yet unreleased system that has this
> same type of issue, and the problem is that two PCI device ID's
> are not recognized, so maybe that will be your problem.
So, I got around to booting the system
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:37:58PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Pete French, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I had been wondering what 'safe' does differently, and whether I
> could fill up loader.conf with approrpiate values to emulate what
> 'safe' does and then start commenting them out one at a time.
> We (Intel networking group) have seen issues with SMP and amd64
> as well, although I dont know that its fully characterized (what works
> and what doesnt) yet.
When I tried mine under amd64 it seemed to behave slightly better oddly
enough - it would at least boot up the SMP kernel without ACPI,
On 6/5/06, Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You say you can boot 'safe', can you boot with just ACPI disabled?
Not using an SMP kernel, no. I did another experiment though, I
installed amd64 onto an IDe drive, and that will boot SMP with
APCI disabled, but still only recognises a single
> You say you can boot 'safe', can you boot with just ACPI disabled?
Not using an SMP kernel, no. I did another experiment though, I
installed amd64 onto an IDe drive, and that will boot SMP with
APCI disabled, but still only recognises a single processor.
> One suggestion, boot in SAFE or non-AC
On 6/5/06, Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not that 6.1 is out the dor I monder if anyone wuld like to give me
a hand with an SMP problem I have. I am running a system with two
Opterorn 242 processors in a K8D Master-F motherboard, each with 512M
of RAM attached. The processors both work a
Not that 6.1 is out the dor I monder if anyone wuld like to give me
a hand with an SMP problem I have. I am running a system with two
Opterorn 242 processors in a K8D Master-F motherboard, each with 512M
of RAM attached. The processors both work and the system will run SMP
under wndows 2000 quite h
