Hi again. Can I rephrase this? What do you think is the likelihood of getting this resolved? I've waited a couple of months so far, because I can't seem to post to the list, from anything other than this googlemail account (blueyonder.co.uk is my ISP and until now, all posts going through their smarthost to the list have been silently dropped).
If I'm not likely to have any joy with this, I'll keep fBSD on the Dell and use it as a database server, to get SMP going, cross-over'd to my Ultra5 oBSD web server. This works for me, but I'd have rather kept all machines on oBSD. -- Best regards, Craig McCormick mccraigy squiggle googlemail d()t com http://slashboot.org/ http://live.lamppost.info/ ######################################################################### Does anybody have any experience with these machines (Dual Pentium2 Dell PowerEdge), running i386 bsd.mp? http://slashboot.org/sendbug_full_report_smp-issues.txt If posting links isn't the done thing, then I'll happily submit the dmesgs direct to the list. The machine has onboard AIC-7880 and AIC-7860 SCSI controllers and dual Pentium2-266s Boots fine on the stock uniprocessor /bsd kernel, both 3.7 and 3.8 Exactly the same behaviour (resets at same point) on both OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8 smp kernels. This is what I've done: 1. Stock install, no X, game38 and downwards not selected. Above game38, all selected. 2. Set up both network cards, static IP. 3. Finish install, halt, reboot. 4. Boot up to generate DSA/RSA keys, login, reboot. 5. At boot prompt: set image /bsd.mp Start booting, gets to stage as described above and resets. Is there something else I need to be doing before attempting to boot on the bsd.mp kernel I'd appreciate any pointers, I'm pretty new to OpenBSD and a true beginner with C, so I wouldn't know where to start with debugging this issue. The machine runs debian sarge's smp kernel and FreeBSD 5.4/6.0 builds a good SMP kernel, without problems. Best regards, Craig McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
