Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:08:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:08:31 -0400 Received: from cpe-66-1-218-52.fl.sprintbbd.net ([66.1.218.52]:62989 "EHLO daytona.compro.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:08:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3D8B3BDE.11C7E177@compro.net> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:16:46 -0400 From: Mark Hounschell Reply-To: markh@compro.net Organization: Compro Computer Svcs. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-lcrs i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Drokin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5 References: <20020920190537.A11244@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1583 Lines: 35 Oleg Drokin wrote: > > Hello! > > We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading > blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard). > Whenever we try to boot 2.4 or 2,5 kernel in there it decompresses > the kernel itself, states 'Ok, booting the kernel' and hangs. > We already tested these versions 2.4.15, 2.4.20-pre7, 2.4.18 from SuSE 8.0, > 2.4.18 from RedHat 7.3 and latest RedHat beta (null), 2.5.36 (latest bk > snapshot as of now). > I remember I saw something like we experience now being reported on lkml > awhile back and 2.2 was able to boot in that case, so we tried 2.2.21 > and it worked to our surprise. > We tried to install latest BIOS version available from MB manufacturer but > that did not help. > Unfortunatelly we are no longer able to find that mail with similar problems, > so may be someone have any ideas on what to do to get 2.4 (and 2.5) > up and runing on such a box? > > Thank you. > I've got 6 of them here running SuSE 8.0. Hyperthreading was disabled in the bios when Suse-8.0 was installed and 3 of the 6 had the clock speed set at it's lowest setting when they arrived but other than that there were no problems. HT was enabled after the install of SuSE-8.0 and no problems there either. ????? Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/