process hangs on 13xx smp kernels

[Issac Newton]

A Boot-disk should allow you to use keyboard and mouse. OR try a rescue
disk, should be the same as boot disk. Shoot I am confusing myself.

DONT KILL THE NEWBIE(me)
-Ice
--- Jonathan Deitch <pinball at litz.org> wrote:
> 
> Umm ...
> 
> That's not going to help my problem, unforunately,
> 
> In my case, it finishes booting and you have no keyboard, no mouse,
> and 
> no network.
> 
> So no way to log in, no way to get to a console, no way to do
> anything.
> 
> So ... any other ideas?
> 
> I have this problem on every single 2.6.9 and 2.6.11 smp kernel
> that's 
> been released, on both FC3 and FC4T3.  Nothing has helped - no kernel
> 
> parms, nothing.
> 
> I'm very very close to getting frustrated enough where I'm going to
> have 
> to dump fedora, if there's not some kind of a solution soon.
> 
> - litz
> 
> 
> Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:57:37PM -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> > > 1366 smp kernel also has process hangs ... standard dell
> poweredge 2400 
> > > dual 1ghz processors, 1gbyte memory, hardware raid, six scsi
> drives ... 
> > > originally shipped with redhat 7 installed. regress to smp kernel
> 1276 
> > > and everything ok (all 13xx smp kernels have had process hang
> problems).
> >
> >Something else to try, is booting with nmi_watchdog=1
> >When it hangs, it should then print a backtrace after 5 seconds.
> >(This does need you to be on the console though, so make sure
> > X isn't focused -- unless you have a serial console.)
> >
> >		Dave
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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