From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Nitin Dhingra <nitin.dhingra@dcmtech.co.in>
Cc: "'Florin Andrei'" <florin@sgi.com>,
linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: noapic strikes back
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:30:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B56706C.893FD2AE@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7FADCB99FC82D41199F9000629A85D1A01C6506A@dcmtechdom.dcmtech.co.in>
Nitin Dhingra wrote:
>
> I guess the problem is mostly of the scsi driver.
> Get the latest version scsi driver of that particular
> card and then try again.
No, this has been gone over a thousand times already. It's the interrupt
routing table in these particular Intel motherboard is busted.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florin Andrei [mailto:florin@sgi.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:05 AM
> To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; seawolf-list@redhat.com; dledford@redhat.com;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: noapic strikes back
>
> I have a SGI 1200 (L440GX+ motherboard, dual PIII) and i'm trying to
> install at least one version of Red Hat 7.1 on it.
> The problem is, while booting up the installer, when it comes to loading
> up the SCSI driver (AIC7xxx) the system is frozen.
>
> I tried the following boot disks:
> - stock Red Hat 7.1
> - Doug Ledford's updates from people.redhat.com
> - SGI XFS 1.0.1
>
> I tried to boot the installer with and without "noapic" option.
>
> I tried to enable and disable the APIC option in BIOS ("PCI IRQs to
> IO-APIC Mapping").
>
> I tried all the combinations of these. No luck. :-(
>
> Please, is there anything to do about this problem? I *have* to install
> something newer than RH7.0 on that system.
>
> Guys, i will try whatever boot disks you will send to me. I'm willing to
> be you guinea pig. :-) Just let's kill the APIC problem for good!
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-19 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-19 4:00 noapic strikes back Nitin Dhingra
2001-07-19 5:30 ` Doug Ledford [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-18 19:35 Florin Andrei
2001-07-18 19:46 ` Doug Ledford
2001-07-18 23:34 ` Florin Andrei
2001-07-19 4:26 ` Doug Ledford
2001-07-18 20:10 ` Jure Pecar
2001-07-18 21:04 ` daniel
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