Re: dual opteron problems

Hi again,

one thing left:
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.

Corin

Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 7:37:32 PM, you wrote:
CL> Hi all,

CL> i just bought a new 2x244 opteron,tyan tiger k8s 2870,
CL> 4gb registered ecc ram system. no addional cards
CL> inserted, only one IDE and one SATA device.

CL> i tried to run the setup with the original debian
CL> kernel 2.6.6-1-k7-smp, but the system hangs right
CL> after the line "initrd-tools: 0.1.69".

CL> so i downloaded the sources for 2.6.6 and compiled
CL> them myself, optimized for dual opteron. unluckily
CL> exactly the same happens.

CL> when i enable the apic 2.0 support in the bios, the
CL> system hangs even ealier right after the first
CL> "calibrating delay loop...".

CL> when i boot the system with the "nosmp" and apic 2.0
CL> disabled (normal apic still enabled) the system
CL> hangs somewhere after "hda: max request size...".

CL> the only way to get the system running is to fully
CL> disable the apic support in the bios and run the
CL> system with "nosmp". :-(((

CL> i hope that anyone could help me,
CL> corin

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