From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" Subject: Re: Kernel hangs on boot Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:54:59 -0700 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200205010055.g410sxB02331@bach.leonora.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.8) Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:26:46 EDT." List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org Upgrade your BIOS (at least to 1010) and set MPS to 1.1. These recommendations have been repeated many times and are easily found by searching the archives. --- Vladimir -------- Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@acm.org Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 "GG" == Gordon Gray writes: GG> I hope you can help me. I upgraded my system from RedHat 7.1 (2.2-smp GG> kernel) to RedHat 7.2 (2.4.7-10 kernel). The smp kernel hangs, but the GG> single cpu kernel boots fine. I decided that perhaps a more recent kernel GG> would help resolve my problem (I really do need both CPUs), so I downloaded GG> a more recent kernel from RedHat and install it: GG> rpm -U kernel-smp-2.4.9-21.i686.rpm GG> Same result. GG> If you can help me in any way, please let me know, or point me to some place GG> that may be able to help. GG> Thank-you in advance, GG> Gordon Gray. GG> Details: GG> My system: GG> ASUS CUV4X-D ACPI BIOS revision 1004 GG> 1179648 KB RAM GG> 2 CPUs - Pentium III (Coppermine), GenuineIntel GG> cpu family 6 GG> model 8 GG> stepping 6 GG> The error: GG> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs GG> ... changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. GG> .. TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 GG> testing the IO APIC....................... GG> WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please email GG> to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org GG> ................................... done. GG> Using local APIC timer interrupts. GG> calibrating APIC timer ... GG> ..... CPU clock speed is 1004.4560 MHz. GG> ..... host bus clock speed is 133.9272 MHz. GG> cpu: 0, clocks: 1339272, slice: 446424 GG> CPU0 GG> cpu: 1, clocks: 1339264, slice:446424 GG> CPU1 GG> checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed GG> At this point the entire system freezes. GG> - GG> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in GG> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org GG> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html