From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Pla Subject: Problem with dual p3 serverworks motherboard Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:28:17 +0800 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DBF43C1.8070301@holidaymarketing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from with PostMaster 3.12.1 (MPR*); Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:28:06 +800 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have been having problems with some new Intel SCB2 motherboards and 1-2GB ram. The root partition is on a hardware raid 5 with the intel SCRMR raid controller. I first noticed the problem after getting a basic debian installed when trying to compile the kernel, initially it gave the typical signal 11 and segmentation faults which made me think it was a memory problem, however changing memory didn't help, after that I suspected it might be a mother board issue and moved to the other motherboard I had for tests, and it gave the same. After I thought it might be a kernel issue, so I tried every kernel since 2.4.17 - 2.4.20-pre11 with the pre10-ac patches applied.. in many different combinations. Some kernels didn't even seem to boot without several oops in the mem_alloc.c:89. Others booted fine and seemed to be stable till I did anything that used ram (including the dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/null) tests. Finally frustrated with my efforts I decided to see if it ran on a 2.2.22 kernel. No problems when booting but when trying to use any large amount of ram, or a kernel compile it gave the same errors. Could this be a hardware problem along all the hardware I bought? Or is there any known issues with this? On a side note, I ran the memtest86 v3 and it gives no errors, however an earlier (2.8) version gives some errors in the ram? Kind regards Pedro