lockup during boot with SMP kernel

[Todd]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 rchart at sciencelogic.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I wonder if anyone can give me some pointers to resolving a problem I'm
> having when trying to run FC1 with an SMP kernel.
>
> I have an Intel SR1300 1U standard server with dual Xeon 2.8GHz, Adaptec
> 2120S SCSI controller setup for hardware RAID. It should be great
> configuration, but I'm hitting persistent problems with the server locking
> up during boot. It doesn't always happen at the same place - sometimes
> during new hardware check, or when bringing up the interfaces, or when it
> has got as far as the login prompt.
>
> I was originally running 2.4.22-1.2115 kernel. I just applied
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm and
> kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm - but the new SMP kernel does the
> same thing. All is fine with a single proc kernel.
>
> Anybody seen this elsewhere or have a suggested resolution path?

Try commenting out the "alias usb-controller usb-ohci" in
/etc/modules.conf and reboot.



>
> Thanks!
>
> Richard Chart
>
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