[SunHELP] SS10 - Second processor....

[Maarten Deen]

Matthew Poertner:

> I have a SS10 and got another CPU for it today but I can't seem to get 
> it going.  When I boot up into prom (or whatever you call it).  I type 
> "module-info" and I get back:
> 
> CPU# 0 : 40.0 SuperSPARC
> CPU# 2 : 40.0 SuperSPARC
> 
> Ok, so I boot up into Solaris 8 from disk and I notice a message:
> 
> MP not supported on downrev SuperSPARC without SuperCache booting UP only
> CPU0: TI, TMS390Z50 version 0x0
> CPU2: TI, TMS390Z50 version 0x0
> 
> I don't know what that means so I ignore it and log on as root.  I do a 

You ignore the one and only message that says there is a problem. 
MP with some of the earlier processors is not possible due to some 
bugs. This message told you that the machine is going to boot UP 
(uni-processor).

There is no fix, except change the processormodules
See also http://mbus.sunhelp.org/modules/ in the large table under 
footnote 1.

Cheers,

Maarten
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