On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, John David Anglin 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. > > It looks like it should be possible to add a second processor. See > Technical Reference Guide HP workstation c8000, Document Part Number: > 5969-3188. I used this guide when adding the new CPU. I bought the torx screwdriver and the hex tool (as described in the guide) from the local hardware store. > Did you install second CPU power module? Yes. > > 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? > > I don't have any specific knowledge about the c8000. It appears CPUs > are configured in the BCH configuration menu with the CPUconfig command. > Based on my experience with rp3440, you have to do a hard reboot > after configuring a CPU. If a CPU gets deconfigured or it doesn't appear > when you type CPUconfig, there is probably a hardware problem. > > 2.13 seems to be latest firmware. > > Dave It showed "WARNING: Too many CPUs for this system." and the new cpu wasn't shown in "IN PR" command. Also, "BO" command refused to boot becuase of the warning. 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
