On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > 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. And is there some hack that enables it? It looks quite dishonest to me when the machine is advertised as capable of two dual-core CPUs, 32GB RAM, 4 PCI-X slots ... and you get this advertised capability only if you buy expensive support contract :-( Mikulas -- 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
