Failure to boot with SMP kernel on x86_64 SMP system ...

[Sandor W. Sklar]

Thanks for the info.  I just tried that, upgrading to  
2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp, but no change in behavior.

	-s-

On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Troy Knabe wrote:

> I had a similar issue.  There was a kernel issue with the LSI raid  
> controller, where it would hang on boot.  It would literally hang  
> 4-7 times,  I would have to hard reset it via the LOM, and finally  
> it would just boot.  I am running 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp.  When I  
> upgraded the kernel it quit.
>
> -Troy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandor W. Sklar" <ssklar at stanford.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 8:09 pm
> Subject: Re: Failure to boot with SMP kernel on x86_64 SMP system ...
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>
>> no, and that's the weird thing.  As far as I know, and as
>> far as my
>> research went, there were no changes, nor was there really any
>> active
>> use of the system.  That's the first thing I checked, of
>> course.  Its
>> kernel version, and the version of all RPMs currently on the
>> system,
>> are the same as on the others that I have, and haven't changed
>> in weeks.
>>
>> 	-s-
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Meadows, Andrew wrote:
>>
>>> Anything installed recently.... Hardware or software?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com <redhat-list-
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>>> Sent: Tue Dec 05 18:43:34 2006
>>> Subject: Failure to boot with SMP kernel on x86_64 SMP system ...
>>>
>>> Hi, Folks ...
>>>
>>> One of my Sun X4100s was hung this morning.  All of them
>> are running
>>> RHEL 4 update 4. On rebooting with an SMP kernel, it consistently
>>> hangs after printing the below to the console:
>>>
>>> ===========================================================
>>>
>>> powernow-k8: Found 4 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version
>>> 1.50.04-rh)
>>> powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure
>>> powernow-k8: init not cpu 0
>>> powernow-k8: init not cpu 0
>>> powernow-k8: init not cpu 0
>>> ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
>>> ACPI wakeup devices:
>>> PCI1 USB0 ETHR USB1
>>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferenceFreeing unused
>> kernel> memory: 192k freed
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>>
>>> All of the systems I have are running the same kernel
>>> (2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp), but I also tried booting it with 2.6.9-
>> 34.ELsmp> kernel, with the same exact result.
>>>
>>> I can boot it fine using the "non-SMP" kernel, but of course,
>> I wind
>>> up with only one CPU.
>>>
>>> This kernel isn't new to the system; it has been running fine
>> with it
>>> for a while. I ran the hardware diagnostic DVD, and it found no
>>> hardware problems.
>>>
>>> So, I'm fishing for ideas here ... anyone got any?  Thanks!
>>>
>>>  	-s-
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