dual opteron board kernel panics on boot with smp kernel

Marshall Lewis marshall at novafoundry.com
Wed May 12 10:36:52 UTC 2004


Well, the 327 smp kernel didn't work, and the new 358 smp kernel didn't
work....  I'll try some of the dev kernels and recompiling a kernel
today (along with running memtest).  Hopefully I can get the box running
with smp : )

--
 Marshall

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:28, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:32:36PM -0400, Marshall Lewis wrote:
> > 
> >  I just put fc2t3 on one of our servers at work to do some testing, and
> > can not get it to boot with any of the smp kernels (up kernels boot just
> > fine).  I don't think this is fedora specific, but I'm wondering if
> > anyone else has had the problem.  It seems to be happening when it trys
> > to initialize? the second cpu.  The machine in question has 6 gigs of
> > ram, and I do seem to remember there being a problem with that in older
> > kernels (2.4 series).  I'll try and provide more info on the server
> > tomorrow. .. I'll probably end up running memtest on this box as well,
> > maybe that will show me something.
> > 
> I thought the actual test3 kernel would boot fine, but there was a series
> of kernels which would not boot AMD64 after test 3.  Current devel kernels
> seem fine for UP and SMP opteron.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> 





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