From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corin Langosch Subject: Re[2]: dual opteron problems Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 11:10:48 +0200 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1553891477.20040520111048@gmx.de> References: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 2004 19:37:32 +0200." <689626123.20040519193732@gmx.de> <200405200521.i4K5Lvlv005934@bach.leonora.org> Reply-To: Corin Langosch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200405200521.i4K5Lvlv005934@bach.leonora.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org Hi! thanks you your reply. unluckily i cant find an option for that in the bios. its the latest bios available. one more debug output: when the system hangs after "vfs: mounted root (cramfs filesystem)" it sometimes outputs: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000000000004 Bank 4: b200000000000000000070f0f Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt can anyone help me with that? would be really nice!! does anybody have a running dual opteron system here? could anyone tell if my hardware has errors or if this is software related..? Thanks, Corin Thursday, May 20, 2004, 7:21:57 AM, you wrote: VGI> I have an ancient dual processor Pentium III machine (ASUS CUV4X-DLS) VGI> for which I had to disable MPS 1.4 in the BIOS to get it to work. VGI> Apparently there's not much difference between MPS 1.1 and 1.4. Give it VGI> a whirl. At worst it'll cost you two reboots. VGI> --- Vladimir VGI> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VGI> Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir VGI> 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@acm.org VGI> Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 VGI> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>> "cl" == Corin Langosch writes: VGI> cl> VGI> cl> Hi all, VGI> cl> i just bought a new 2x244 opteron,tyan tiger k8s 2870, VGI> cl> 4gb registered ecc ram system. no addional cards VGI> cl> inserted, only one IDE and one SATA device. VGI> cl> VGI> cl> i tried to run the setup with the original debian VGI> cl> kernel 2.6.6-1-k7-smp, but the system hangs right VGI> cl> after the line "initrd-tools: 0.1.69". VGI> cl> VGI> cl> so i downloaded the sources for 2.6.6 and compiled VGI> cl> them myself, optimized for dual opteron. unluckily VGI> cl> exactly the same happens. VGI> cl> VGI> cl> when i enable the apic 2.0 support in the bios, the VGI> cl> system hangs even ealier right after the first VGI> cl> "calibrating delay loop...". VGI> cl> VGI> cl> when i boot the system with the "nosmp" and apic 2.0 VGI> cl> disabled (normal apic still enabled) the system VGI> cl> hangs somewhere after "hda: max request size...". VGI> cl> VGI> cl> the only way to get the system running is to fully VGI> cl> disable the apic support in the bios and run the VGI> cl> system with "nosmp". :-((( VGI> cl> VGI> cl> i hope that anyone could help me, VGI> cl> corin VGI> cl> VGI> cl> - VGI> cl> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in VGI> cl> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org VGI> cl> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html VGI> cl>