From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Gordon J Lee <gordonl@world.std.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IBM x360 2.2.x boot failure, 2.4.9 works fine
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:34:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020315233441.GG5563@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C927F3E.7C7FB075@world.std.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C927F3E.7C7FB075@world.std.com>
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:09:50PM -0500, Gordon J Lee wrote:
> IBM has a brand new xSeries PC server called the x360.
> It has 1-4 Xeon MP's, DDR SDRAM, PCI-X backplane, IBM Summit chipset.
> Full specs are here:
>
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/xseries/x360.html
Eeek, these machines are now in the wild? Didn't realize this :)
> Has anyone tried running Linux on one of these ?
Yes.
> I have tried a few versions and found:
>
> 2.2.18 fails in boot
> 2.2.20 fails in boot
> 2.2.21rc2 fails in boot
Ouch :(
> 2.4.9 works fine!
Glad to see this.
> I know the hardware is in good shape because a 2.4.9 kernel works
> fine on this machine. I have scoured the IBM site, linux-kernel,
> and Google for clues, but to no avail.
>
> The boot sequence failure under the 2.2.x versions that I tried is
> always the same, it fails to recognize the IDE and SCSI devices. From
> the messages, the system appears to be deaf to interrupts and so it
> cannot recognize its devices. Notable messages from the boot sequence
> that support this idea are:
I don't know if anyone ever tried a 2.2.x kernel on these boxes :)
Is there a reason you _really_ need a 2.2.x kernel for this machine?
You also might try a UP 2.2.x kernel on this box to see if the problem
is in the parsing of the APIC tables (as I think it is.)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-15 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 23:09 IBM x360 2.2.x boot failure, 2.4.9 works fine Gordon J Lee
2002-03-15 23:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-03-16 0:06 ` James Cleverdon
2002-03-16 1:50 ` Gordon J Lee
2002-03-16 5:58 ` Greg KH
2002-03-17 19:43 ` Jack F. Vogel
2002-03-15 23:43 ` Greg KH
2002-03-16 2:46 ` Gordon J Lee
2002-03-16 5:55 ` Greg KH
2002-03-16 17:27 ` Gordon J Lee
2002-03-16 17:34 ` Greg KH
2002-03-16 17:53 ` Gordon J Lee
2002-03-16 19:40 ` Greg KH
2002-03-16 19:54 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-16 20:51 ` Alan Cox
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