Re: ES45 and SMP?

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Stephen Jones wrote:

> I've got a few ES45s available to me with 4 procs each.  Before I put down 
> the dough, is NetBSD ready for
> prime time on these?  I'm guessing Greg is the only one that might know for 
> sure.  And I of course don't
> mean just loading NetBSD and then letting the machine idle, I mean really 
> intense 24/7 use.

  Our ES45 has just been removed from production, so I am attempting to 
boot NetBSD on it, but no luck so far.

  I have been able to boot an ES40 with no problems, but the ES45 (as well 
as an ES47 we had taken out of production) fails loading the kernel.

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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University        Bozeman, MT     USA