"SMP motherboard not detected" with Redhat 9.0 and Proliant 8000

[Herry_4]

I try to install redhat 9.0 with proliant 8000 with dual PIII xeon 550, the kernel can't not detected the 2nd cpu, then can't run with SMP,
in message log show :"SMP motherboard not detected"

any one have idea to solve this problem ?

my Kernel : Kernel-smp-2.4.20.20.9


message log:
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 5850.23 usecs.
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: SMP motherboard not detected.
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
Oct 16 00:36:30 ns41 kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 549.9930 MHz.

[Ivan Ferreira]

I know this is an old message, but if anybody needs i booted with SMP kernel my Red Hat Linux sucessfully by adding the nomca and noapic option to the kernel.

Also on very old proliant models, you should setup the os type to unixware.