[Oberon] Multiprocessor without MMX (was: Restrictions of Oberon-Partitions?)

[Alexander Hofmann]

As I read this E-Mail, I remembered trying to boot Blouebottle on a
Multiprocessor-System with 2 Pentium I Processors, without MMX, and it
didn't work. At that time I thought is must be the missing MMX-Support,
now I wonder if it just could have been the same Problem described here,
so setting MaxProccs=1 could solve it?


Thomas Frey schrieb:
>>I got a new computer with two S-ATA and one P-ATA drives.
>>Although chances are not too big that Bluebottle will run on
>>this device (AMD64 X2 dual core CPU, nvidia 7800GTX graphic
>>card) I will reserve at least one partition for Bluebottle on
>>the P-ATA drive. (I think S-ATA will not work with Oberon)
> 
> 
> I have an alike AMD64 X2 System. (Gigabyte K8 Triton board).
> Bluebottle runs when I limit the maximal number of processors to 1
> (MaxProcs=1 in the boot config) and boot via CD. There is a BIOS
> problem when trying to boot from the harddisk. As soon as the
> Bluebottle kernel is loaded the harddisk becomes accessible.
> It would be interesting to know if you can boot with both processors enabled.
> 
> 
>>Are there still limitations about the maximum size or location of
>>partitions used for Bluebottle, AOS and ETH Native Oberon?
> 
> There is a maximum harddisk size limit (28bit * 512 = 134GB ?) for the
> ATAPI driver, the partition limits are gone. With Disks > 134GB? the
> partition needs to be completely before the limit. Before I left ETH
> there was some student work going on for a new SATA driver without
> this limit, but i cannot guess the progress.
> 
> --Thomas
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