Dear Kernel People,
A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard
and dual 1GHZ PIII's. We have installed RedHat 7.1. The original
RedHat SMP kernel (2.4.2) did not boot; it froze with some complaints
about APIC. The backup single processor kernel 2.4.2 booted o.k.,
however. The upgraded kernel from RedHat (2.4.3) also refused to boot
properly - the boot up will start and the screen will then go blank
before I can discern any informative messages. I also downloaded the
latest 2.4.6 kernel which had the identical problem, and then I also
applied the latest Alan-Cox patch for 2.4.6 which did not solve the
problem. The 2.4.6 kernel will boot when only a single processor
is used, however.
The system is fairly basic - no sound card, ADAPTEC SCSI card (nothing
attached for now), 1 GB PC133 RAM, 2 60 GB IDE Harddrives (1 Maxtor, 1 IBM),
CD and CDRW, GeFORCE 2 MX video card, 3Com 3c59x ethernet and not much else.
Specs for the motherboard are at:
http://www.asus.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/pentiumpro/cuv4x-d/index.html
Any idea as to how we might get the dual processors to work? My next plan
is to compile the kernel without the Pentium III optimizations...
Thanks,
B.D.
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In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> Dear Kernel People,
> A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard
> and dual 1GHZ PIII's. We have installed RedHat 7.1. The original
> RedHat SMP kernel (2.4.2) did not boot; it froze with some complaints
> about APIC. The backup single processor kernel 2.4.2 booted o.k.,
> however. The upgraded kernel from RedHat (2.4.3) also refused to boot
> properly - the boot up will start and the screen will then go blank
> before I can discern any informative messages. I also downloaded the
> latest 2.4.6 kernel which had the identical problem, and then I also
> applied the latest Alan-Cox patch for 2.4.6 which did not solve the
> problem. The 2.4.6 kernel will boot when only a single processor
> is used, however.
For several people the following works:
1) Upgrade to the latest bios
2) Change the "MPS" level in the bios. It can have 3 values "1.4" "1.1" and
"none". the default one doesn't work, one of the others does (but I
forgot which one)
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
> A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard
> and dual 1GHZ PIII's. We have installed RedHat 7.1. The original
> RedHat SMP kernel (2.4.2) did not boot; it froze with some complaints
You need at least bios rev 1007 I believe
[email protected] wrote:
>
> In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> > Dear Kernel People,
> > A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard
> > and dual 1GHZ PIII's.
...
> For several people the following works:
> 1) Upgrade to the latest bios
> 2) Change the "MPS" level in the bios. It can have 3 values "1.4" "1.1" and
> "none". the default one doesn't work, one of the others does (but I
> forgot which one)
1.1 works fine for me. I haven't had a problem with this board since
upgrading the BIOS and changing the MPS version to 1.1.
You can also specify "noapic" to the booting kernel.
John