Mars G Miro wrote: > Someone mentioned the same boot hangup problems I've had and the 'fix' > was to boot to some other OS first, like Linux. I tried Slackware 12.1 That was me... > (also hangs somewhere during boot) and then Ubuntu 8.04 (am able to go > into the install screen) but rebooting back to freebsd is no go. Then Hmm, Ubuntu (64-bit) worked for me. > I recalled we were able to successfully install 64-bit Windows 2003 > Server on it. So I booted it to the windows 2003 server just to the > point where it asks to install it, then rebooted it to the already > installed FreeBSD. So the problem looks like it has something to do with hardware initialization. > Also it detects only 16CPUs instead of 24. Win2k3 detects all 24. On Wed Oct 1 21:59:04 2008 John Baldwin increased the limit on CPUs to 32 for both AMD64 and i386. There is ongoing work to increase this to 64 CPUs in the 64-bit version. > > make -j16 buildworld: 4442.721u 3236.681s 16:29.50 776.0% > 6064+6203k 539+8258io 15117pf+0w > > But I have an HP DL380 Quad-Core Xeon that rebuilds the world in just > 13 minutes :-p 21 minutes with 2x4-core 1.86 GHz Xeon :(
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