Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:28:23PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> I have a box with a Tyan Thunder dual CPU MB. The two CPUs I have are
> both 300MHz Pentium IIs. But one is a Deschutes step 2 and the other
> a Klamath step 4.
Ewww. Mis-matched CPU's. Nice motherboard.
> Both work when they are the only CPU, but booting with both installed
> hangs just after the NRG is initialized and "Recovering nvi editor
> sessions".
I'm surprised it boots at all, although I'm sure what's going on is that
only one CPU is enabled until the kernel gets hold of things.. A testament
to a Tyan motherboard and it's ability to work even with wildly
mis-configured hardware.
> Do I need to get matching CPUs?
Yep. Definately the same step, and from the same lot wouldn't be a bad
idea (although hard to accomplish, unless you buy them together). If
anything else works, it's pure luck.
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