Re: dual opteron problems

I have an ancient dual processor Pentium III machine (ASUS CUV4X-DLS)
for which I had to disable MPS 1.4 in the BIOS to get it to work.
Apparently there's not much difference between MPS 1.1 and 1.4. Give it
a whirl. At worst it'll cost you two reboots.
 
--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
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Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014
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>>>>> "cl" == Corin Langosch <[email protected]> writes:

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