Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

   We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading
   blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard).
   Whenever we try to boot 2.4 or 2,5 kernel in there it decompresses
   the kernel itself, states 'Ok, booting the kernel' and hangs.
   We already tested these versions 2.4.15, 2.4.20-pre7, 2.4.18 from SuSE 8.0,
   2.4.18 from RedHat 7.3 and latest RedHat beta (null), 2.5.36 (latest bk
   snapshot as of now). 
   I remember I saw something like we experience now being reported on lkml
   awhile back and 2.2 was able to boot in that case, so we tried 2.2.21
   and it worked to our surprise.
   We tried to install latest BIOS version available from MB manufacturer but
   that did not help.
   Unfortunatelly we are no longer able to find that mail with similar problems,
   so may be someone have any ideas on what to do to get 2.4 (and 2.5)
   up and runing on such a box?

   Thank you.

Bye,
    Oleg

Re: Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

[Mark Hounschell]

Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>    We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading
>    blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard).
>    Whenever we try to boot 2.4 or 2,5 kernel in there it decompresses
>    the kernel itself, states 'Ok, booting the kernel' and hangs.
>    We already tested these versions 2.4.15, 2.4.20-pre7, 2.4.18 from SuSE 8.0,
>    2.4.18 from RedHat 7.3 and latest RedHat beta (null), 2.5.36 (latest bk
>    snapshot as of now).
>    I remember I saw something like we experience now being reported on lkml
>    awhile back and 2.2 was able to boot in that case, so we tried 2.2.21
>    and it worked to our surprise.
>    We tried to install latest BIOS version available from MB manufacturer but
>    that did not help.
>    Unfortunatelly we are no longer able to find that mail with similar problems,
>    so may be someone have any ideas on what to do to get 2.4 (and 2.5)
>    up and runing on such a box?
> 
>    Thank you.
> 

I've got 6 of them here running SuSE 8.0. Hyperthreading was disabled in the
bios when Suse-8.0 was
installed and 3 of the 6 had the clock speed set at it's lowest setting when
they arrived but other than that there were no problems. HT was enabled after
the install of SuSE-8.0 and no problems there either. ?????

Mark

Re: Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

[Alexander Lyamin]

Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:16:46AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> >    We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading
> >    blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard).
> >    Thank you.
> > 
> 
> I've got 6 of them here running SuSE 8.0. Hyperthreading was disabled in the
> bios when Suse-8.0 was
> installed and 3 of the 6 had the clock speed set at it's lowest setting when
> they arrived but other than that there were no problems. HT was enabled after
> the install of SuSE-8.0 and no problems there either. ?????

what is your bios version Mark ?

-- 
"Cache remedies via multi-variable logic shorts will leave you crying."(cl)
Lex Lyamin

Re: [P4DC6+] Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

[Alexander Lyamin]

Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:31:38PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote:
> Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:16:46AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > >    We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading
> > >    blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard).
> > >    Thank you.
> > > 
> > 
> > I've got 6 of them here running SuSE 8.0. Hyperthreading was disabled in the
> > bios when Suse-8.0 was
> > installed and 3 of the 6 had the clock speed set at it's lowest setting when
> > they arrived but other than that there were no problems. HT was enabled after
> > the install of SuSE-8.0 and no problems there either. ?????
> 
> what is your bios version Mark ?

Ok, with bios updated to 1.2b (initially we had 1.2a) AND
after toggling  MPS1.4>MPS1.1>MPS1.4  and Hyperthreading OFF and then back
ON it finally boots.

P.S.
new hardware is black box full of cheap tricks most of time :)
-- 
"Cache remedies via multi-variable logic shorts will leave you crying."(cl)
Lex Lyamin

Re: [P4DC6+] Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

[Mark Hounschell]

Alexander Lyamin wrote:
> 
> Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:31:38PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote:
> > Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:16:46AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > > Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > >    We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading
> > > >    blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard).
> > > >    Thank you.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I've got 6 of them here running SuSE 8.0. Hyperthreading was disabled in the
> > > bios when Suse-8.0 was
> > > installed and 3 of the 6 had the clock speed set at it's lowest setting when
> > > they arrived but other than that there were no problems. HT was enabled after
> > > the install of SuSE-8.0 and no problems there either. ?????
> >
> > what is your bios version Mark ?

bios-1.2

Mark