Re: 2.2.1 SMP freezing on boot

Jan Blunck (J.Blunck@tu-harburg.de)
Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:51:34 +0100


Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pape@ph.ucla.edu [SMTP:pape@ph.ucla.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 8:00 PM
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> > Subject: 2.2.1 SMP freezing on boot
> >
> > The 2.2.1 kernel is freezing on my dual PII-333 machine with MB440LX
> > motherboard in SMP mode. After the kernel is loaded by lilo and the "now
> > booting kernel" message appears, the machine locks hard.
> >
> > If the kernel is compiled identically but in UP mode, it works fine.
> >
> > 2.1.131ac13 and 2.0.36 boot fine (although the AMI MegaRAID driver isn't
> > very stable in these kernels so I never actually get to a shell prompt,
> > but the kernel boots fine).
> >
> Is this a different card/motherboard than the Intel one you had that isn't
> supported yet?
> If so, what card? (If not, I am still working out the hardware
> differences).
>
> -
> Jeff L Jones (jeffreyj@ami.com)
> RAID SW Dev., American Megatrends Inc.
>

I got no Problem booting my Dual Celeron 333 with an Gigabyte 686BXDS
Mainboard with 2.2.1-ac3/ac2/2.2.0. I included international encryption
patch. Everything works fine.

Jan

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