On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a C8000 workstation with one PA8800 900MHz CPU (the motherboard has > two sockets), I installed Linux via serial console on it and it seems to > be running quite fine (I had to plug a PCI serial card because Linux > doesn't recognize the on-board serial ports or videocard). > > When I inserted anober PA8800 900MHz CPU (taken from another workstation) > to the second socket on the motherboard, the boot firmware writes a > warning "Too many CPUs for this system.", drops into the boot menu and > refuses to load an operating system. > > Do you have some idea how to solve it? I.e. switch something in the > firmware, load new firmware (I have FW 2.13 BMC 02.32), or get some tool > from HP that can allow the second processor on this workstation? > > (note, this is not Linux kernel problem at all because the firmware > doesn't even start Linux) AFAIK you can't add a second CPU without an HP technician enabling the firmware for a second CPU. The same goes for enabling additional PCI slots. Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
