* SMP Woes @ 2004-04-22 15:50 Bobby Hitt 2004-04-22 17:21 ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Bobby Hitt @ 2004-04-22 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-smp Hello, I recently posted this message to the linux-kernel list: ------ I have an ASUS CUV4XD dual CPU mobo that I've been using with Window 2000 Professional for the last two years. It worked fine, W2K used both CPUs with no problems whatsoever. I recently upgraded my W2K system, and decided to use the ASUS board in a system I was building to use as a Linux gateway. The problem I'm having is the system refuses to boot when I created a kernel with SMP support. If I turn off SMP and rebuild the kernel, boots fine. I have two other SMP systems, very old mother boards, 5+ years old. They both run Linux fine with SMP. I even took the source tree from a working system, built a new kernel, locks up on bootup. The last message displayed : Total of 2 processors activated ( 3186.68 BogoMIPS) Enabling IO-APIC IRQs Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map ... changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. I contacted Alan Cox about this, he said he was working on his MBa and hadn't been involved with kernel development for a while. He suggest adding: append="noapic pci=usepirqmask" to the lilo.conf file, which I did. No change. Any body have similar problems or suggestions? ------ This was for kernel 2.4.23. I've since figured out that problem. I found that the BIOS had an option "MPS 1/4 Support" which was checked. Turned that off, and now the system boots fine, but now have a new problem with my RAID configuration. When "raidstart /dev/md0" runs, it gives this error: cannot determine md version: 6 The only thing I've done is to enable smp support in the kernel, which brings up another issue. I had just installed the source tree for 2.4.26. smp support was already checked, so all I did was to enable raid, reiserfs support, etc. I didn't turn on anything un-necessary. With "vga=791" set in the lilo.conf file, on reboot now all I get is a black screen and system lockup. When I went back to turn off smp, now the build fails with lots of "num_cpus" (or close to that) appear everywhere. The only way I can now build a new kernel is to save my .config file, wipe the directory, re-install the source tree, copy my .config file back and rebuild. With regard to the display issue, I'll disable the display for now. The raid issue is the main thing. TIA, Bobby ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: SMP Woes 2004-04-22 15:50 SMP Woes Bobby Hitt @ 2004-04-22 17:21 ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic 2004-04-22 18:34 ` Bobby Hitt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Vladimir G. Ivanovic @ 2004-04-22 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bobby Hitt; +Cc: linux-smp I have an ASUS CUV4X-DLS dual-processor motherboard that I've been running for three years (?). I use grub; here is my grub.conf file: timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz default=0 title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2179.nptlsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2179.nptlsmp root=/dev/sda4 hdb=ide-scsi ide2=0x9400,0x9002 ide3=0x8800,0x8402 initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2179.nptlsmp.img title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp root=/dev/sda4 hdb=ide-scsi ide2=0x9400,0x9002 ide3=0x8800,0x8402 initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp.img title Memtest86 v3.1 kernel /memtest86-3.1 But to get Linux SMP to run, I had to turn off MPS 1.4 support in the BIOS. I also turn off automatic IDE detection, but then enable the Primary IDE channel. (I have an 133 MHz IDE controller hooked up to a 200 GB drive.) Let me know if you want more details about my setup. --- Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@acm.org Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> "bh" == Bobby Hitt <Bob.Hitt@bscnet.com> writes: bh> Hello, bh> bh> I recently posted this message to the linux-kernel list: bh> ------ bh> I have an ASUS CUV4XD dual CPU mobo that I've been using with Window 2000 bh> Professional for the last two years. It worked fine, W2K used both CPUs with bh> no problems whatsoever. I recently upgraded my W2K system, and decided to bh> use the ASUS board in a system I was building to use as a Linux gateway. The bh> problem I'm having is the system refuses to boot when I created a kernel bh> with SMP support. If I turn off SMP and rebuild the kernel, boots fine. I bh> have two other SMP systems, very old mother boards, 5+ years old. They both bh> run Linux fine with SMP. I even took the source tree from a working system, bh> built a new kernel, locks up on bootup. The last message displayed : bh> bh> Total of 2 processors activated ( 3186.68 BogoMIPS) bh> Enabling IO-APIC IRQs bh> Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map bh> .. changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. bh> bh> I contacted Alan Cox about this, he said he was working on his MBa and bh> hadn't been involved with kernel development for a while. He suggest adding: bh> bh> append="noapic pci=usepirqmask" bh> bh> to the lilo.conf file, which I did. No change. bh> bh> Any body have similar problems or suggestions? bh> ------ bh> bh> This was for kernel 2.4.23. bh> bh> I've since figured out that problem. I found that the BIOS had an option bh> "MPS 1/4 Support" which was checked. Turned that off, and now the system bh> boots fine, but now have a new problem with my RAID configuration. When bh> "raidstart /dev/md0" runs, it gives this error: bh> bh> cannot determine md version: 6 bh> bh> The only thing I've done is to enable smp support in the kernel, which bh> brings up another issue. I had just installed the source tree for 2.4.26. bh> smp support was already checked, so all I did was to enable raid, reiserfs bh> support, etc. I didn't turn on anything un-necessary. With "vga=791" set in bh> the lilo.conf file, on reboot now all I get is a black screen and system bh> lockup. When I went back to turn off smp, now the build fails with lots of bh> "num_cpus" (or close to that) appear everywhere. The only way I can now bh> build a new kernel is to save my .config file, wipe the directory, bh> re-install the source tree, copy my .config file back and rebuild. With bh> regard to the display issue, I'll disable the display for now. The raid bh> issue is the main thing. bh> bh> TIA, bh> bh> Bobby bh> bh> - bh> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in bh> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org bh> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html bh> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: SMP Woes 2004-04-22 17:21 ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic @ 2004-04-22 18:34 ` Bobby Hitt 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Bobby Hitt @ 2004-04-22 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Vladimir G. Ivanovic; +Cc: linux-smp Howdy, I figured out the MPS 1.4 issue, it was enabled in my BIOS. I just downloaded 2.6.5 and installed it. Everything works except the video mode. I have "vga=791" in lilo.conf, which has worked on every kernel I've ever built. 2.6.5 just ignores it. Ireadup a little on the vesafb, it has a lot more stuff about configuring then I've seen before. In a bit I'm going to reboot with "vga=ask" to see if I can use something different. Bobby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir@leonora.org> To: "Bobby Hitt" <Bob.Hitt@bscnet.com> Cc: <linux-smp@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:21 PM Subject: Re: SMP Woes > I have an ASUS CUV4X-DLS dual-processor motherboard that I've been > running for three years (?). > > I use grub; here is my grub.conf file: > > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > default=0 > > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2179.nptlsmp) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2179.nptlsmp root=/dev/sda4 hdb=ide-scsi ide2=0x9400,0x9002 ide3=0x8800,0x8402 > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2179.nptlsmp.img > > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp root=/dev/sda4 hdb=ide-scsi ide2=0x9400,0x9002 ide3=0x8800,0x8402 > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp.img > > title Memtest86 v3.1 > kernel /memtest86-3.1 > > But to get Linux SMP to run, I had to turn off MPS 1.4 support in the > BIOS. I also turn off automatic IDE detection, but then enable the > Primary IDE channel. (I have an 133 MHz IDE controller hooked up to a > 200 GB drive.) > > Let me know if you want more details about my setup. > > --- Vladimir > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir > 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@acm.org > Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >>>>> "bh" == Bobby Hitt <Bob.Hitt@bscnet.com> writes: > > bh> Hello, > bh> > bh> I recently posted this message to the linux-kernel list: > bh> ------ > bh> I have an ASUS CUV4XD dual CPU mobo that I've been using with Window 2000 > bh> Professional for the last two years. It worked fine, W2K used both CPUs with > bh> no problems whatsoever. I recently upgraded my W2K system, and decided to > bh> use the ASUS board in a system I was building to use as a Linux gateway. The > bh> problem I'm having is the system refuses to boot when I created a kernel > bh> with SMP support. If I turn off SMP and rebuild the kernel, boots fine. I > bh> have two other SMP systems, very old mother boards, 5+ years old. They both > bh> run Linux fine with SMP. I even took the source tree from a working system, > bh> built a new kernel, locks up on bootup. The last message displayed : > bh> > bh> Total of 2 processors activated ( 3186.68 BogoMIPS) > bh> Enabling IO-APIC IRQs > bh> Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map > bh> .. changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. > bh> > bh> I contacted Alan Cox about this, he said he was working on his MBa and > bh> hadn't been involved with kernel development for a while. He suggest adding: > bh> > bh> append="noapic pci=usepirqmask" > bh> > bh> to the lilo.conf file, which I did. No change. > bh> > bh> Any body have similar problems or suggestions? > bh> ------ > bh> > bh> This was for kernel 2.4.23. > bh> > bh> I've since figured out that problem. I found that the BIOS had an option > bh> "MPS 1/4 Support" which was checked. Turned that off, and now the system > bh> boots fine, but now have a new problem with my RAID configuration. When > bh> "raidstart /dev/md0" runs, it gives this error: > bh> > bh> cannot determine md version: 6 > bh> > bh> The only thing I've done is to enable smp support in the kernel, which > bh> brings up another issue. I had just installed the source tree for 2.4.26. > bh> smp support was already checked, so all I did was to enable raid, reiserfs > bh> support, etc. I didn't turn on anything un-necessary. With "vga=791" set in > bh> the lilo.conf file, on reboot now all I get is a black screen and system > bh> lockup. When I went back to turn off smp, now the build fails with lots of > bh> "num_cpus" (or close to that) appear everywhere. The only way I can now > bh> build a new kernel is to save my .config file, wipe the directory, > bh> re-install the source tree, copy my .config file back and rebuild. With > bh> regard to the display issue, I'll disable the display for now. The raid > bh> issue is the main thing. > bh> > bh> TIA, > bh> > bh> Bobby > bh> > bh> - > bh> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in > bh> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > bh> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > bh> > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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