Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs

Jeff Chua
2008-08-06T16:35:35Z

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:

> actually x86_pc is one mode of genericarch..., genericarch already
> could detect pc, bigsmp, and numaq, es7000, bigsmp, visew..

It seems to get "sparse mem", NUMA must be set first, but this is not
required for X86_PC.

> in the dmesg when booting x86_pc only, we already have warning to let
> you set bigsmp if you have 8 more cpus.

With more than 8 CPUs and upon boot up and hangs, Shift+PgUp does not
work, so it's not possible to view console messages except those on
the current page, so I guess I missed that hint.

Jeff.