Re: Enabling SMP causes boot failure

Matt Brei wrote:

> I'm using 2.6.18.1 on a dual Athlon MP 1800+ machine with SMP disabled
> which works just fine.  As soon as I enable SMP in the kernel, I get a
> bunch of errors about nbdX sending on a closed socket, the device
> mapper and the kernel fails with No volume groups found.  If I disable
> Network Block Devices and enable LVM and Device Mapper, the nbd and
> device map errors stop but I still have the volume group error and a
> boot failure.
>
> Any idea why? 


None, but things like this are related to acpi issues often enough to 
make some boot time acpi options worth trying. Also: try booting the smp 
kernel with the "nosmp" option. That's not the same as the uni kernel, 
and might aid in telling unhappy kernel from unhappy hardware.

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  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979