Server is older PIII dual cpu Compaq 1850R. Previously i was able to get it working with an older build (2.4.21) using "smp doscsi noapic". Back then the 2.6 kernel did not detect both cpu's either. Have tried many different ways of booting off the latest cd's, no luck. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot from 2005.0 cd 2. type "gentoo doscsi" Actual Results: only loads one cpu "motherboard is not detected as SMP motherboard" Expected Results: CPU 0 - Pentium III (Katmai) 598 MHz 512k CPU 1 - Pentium III (Katmai) 598 MHz 512k Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Initializing CPU#0 Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Detected 598.253 MHz processor. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Calibrating delay loop... 1179.64 BogoMIPS (lpj=589824) Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Couldn't initialize miscdevice /dev/synth. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd CPU: L2 cache: 512K Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03 Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1462.89 usecs. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd SMP motherboard not detected. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. Apr 22 02:58:18 livecd Brought up 1 CPUs
Created attachment 56885 [details] /var/log/messages from boot wordpad opens this easily.
Hrrrmn... what if you try "gentoo noapic" when you boot?
i get the same result when I try "gentoo noapic".
Want to bet it doesn't work with 2005.1, either?
Can you try with 2005.1, please? If 2005.1 does not work, please REOPEN this bug. I'm hoping that the newer kernel in 2005.1 resolves this issue.
A new post in the forums actually helped me fix it. Going into the BIOS on the Compaq 1850R and changing the OS from "Other" to "Unixware 7" then reboot and 2 cpus are working. Thanks! http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-378166-highlight-compaq+1850r.html
Excellent! Thanks for the tip! Hopefully others will find it useful.
