SMP Kernel::Boot Failure-hang at "booting the kernel"

[Douglas Furlong]

I was installing RH9 on a motherboard with a Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX
Host bridge, and an on-board SCSI card.

>From what I could tell it was not possible to get the system to install
on to the SCSI hard drive due to a bug/issue with the linux scsi driver
I believe. My memory is a bit hazy about the details.

I got around it by placing an IDE drive in the box, and installing the
majority of stuff on to that, and just placing high IO data on the scsi
drive's.

It works fine with that set up.

I am not entirely sure if it is a "similar" problem hear, however I find
it strange that the single CPU kernel works fine, however the dual does
not.

I currently have the /boot partition on the scsi hard drive, but the
boot loader I believe is stored on /dev/hda some where.

I also tried having every thing installed on the IDE drive, but that did
not work either.

Doug

 On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:56, Alex F. Evonosky wrote:
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> I have a 440GX box as well, but I cannot even install RH9 much less
> FC1 on it, states "no hard drives found" after it loads the aic7xxx
> and megaraid modules.  RH7.3 and previous version work great and this
> is a production server, so the raid V works excellent.  I have yet had
> a response in over 1.5 years asking how to get off of RH7.3 and move
> on to RH9, so I thought FC1 fixed the 440GX issue, but it did not, as
> I tried to install it.  Opened a bug report a while back on bugzilla,
> yet no reply.  I'm just eagerly awaiting to move on to FC, but stuck.
> 
> my lspci:
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge
> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
> 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
> 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
> (rev 05)
> 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro
> AGP 1X (rev 5c)
> 02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891
> 02:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7860 (rev 03)
> 02:0a.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 80960RP [i960 RP
> Microprocessor/Bridge] (rev 03)
> 02:0a.1 I2O: Intel Corp. 80960RP [i960RP Microprocessor] (rev 03)
> 
> 
> ~Alex
> 
> 
> Joseph M Bironas wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to hear it, but it's nice to know it's an error that has been
> > duplicated.
> >
> > The only thing strange about my system that I haven't mentioned so
> > far is that the boot partition (/boot) is on a standard partition on
> > /dev/sda1, while the root partition (/) is on a logical volume
> > (/dev/Volume00/LogVol00) that is shared between the remainder of
> > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
> >
> > I would think that if this situation were an impossibility, that
> > neither the SMP or the non-SMP kernel would boot.
> >
> > I have a vary similar config as you, lspci output follows:
> >
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge
> > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> > 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
> > 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
> > 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
> > 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
> > [Cyclone] (rev 24)
> > 00:13.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA
> > TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11)
> > 02:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891/7890
> > 02:0e.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U (rev 01)
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