From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264879AbUEVCOK (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 22:14:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264513AbUEVCN3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 22:13:29 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:23968 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264992AbUEVCJp (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 22:09:45 -0400 X-Authenticated: #199736 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 00:04:48 +0200 From: Corin Langosch Reply-To: Corin Langosch X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1457910676.20040520000448@gmx.de> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: dual opteron problems, tyan 2870 board MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, i just bought a new 2x244 opteron,tyan tiger k8s 2870, 4gb registered ecc ram system. no addional cards inserted, only one IDE and one SATA device. i tried to run the setup with the original debian kernel 2.6.6-1-k7-smp, but the system hangs right after the line "initrd-tools: 0.1.69". so i downloaded the sources for 2.6.6 and compiled them myself, optimized for dual opteron. unluckily exactly the same happens. when i enable the apic 2.0 support in the bios, the system hangs even ealier right after the first "calibrating delay loop...". when i boot the system with the "nosmp" and apic 2.0 disabled (normal apic still enabled) the system hangs somewhere after "hda: max request size...". the only way to get the system running is to fully disable the apic support in the bios and run the system with "nosmp". :-((( additional info: when i boot using the 2.4.26-k7-smp kernel, the system also hangs. sometimes when saying "loading data into ramdisk.." and sometimes later. one time a "decompression error..." was displayed. when i boot using "nosmp", the system boots fine. with the 2.4.26 kernel, i dont need to disable APIC completely. i hope that anyone could help me, corin