process hangs on 13xx smp kernels

[Jonathan Deitch]

Ok, followup ...

I've installed from scratch, selecting "server", and allowing all 
defaults, both FC3 and FC4T3.

Stock, off the CDs, both fail in SMP mode on my motherboard.  After 
installing all available upgrades via "yum upgrade", both still fail ... 
even the much vaunted new 1363 kernel for 4T3.

FC3 simply does the same thing (all IO ceases the second the kernel 
inits, so once login arrives it's dead)

FC4T3 sees 3 out of 4 cpus (3 penguins) and instantly reboots.

Anyone got any ideas? I find it absolutely ridiculous that no flavor of 
Fedora so far works in smp on my motherboard ... :-(   Knoppix boots 
right into smp, no problems whatsoever.

- JD


Jonathan Deitch wrote:

>
> Intel SE7501CW2 dual 1.8 xeon, 512mb memory, IDE hdd w/two 3ware raid 
> cards for mass storage ... it's a "normal" fc4t3 installation, with 
> all available yum updates installed.
>
> It flat out refuses to boot to smp - freezes the instant a login 
> prompt appears whether in single mode, normal multiuser, or X.
>
> I've backtracked kernels all the way to old FC3 kernels, same thing ...
>
> - litz
>
> Thomas Taylor wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 26 May 2005 19:18, Jonathan Deitch wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Where do your processes hang?
>>>
>>> I can't get mine to allow a login : it boots to a login prompt and
>>> freezes ... doesn't matter if I'm in runlevel 1, 3 or 5 ...
>>>
>>> It's done this with any FC3 or 4 kernel I've tried ...
>>>
>>> If your 1276 is working, what kernel parameters are you passing?
>>>
>>> - litz
>>>
>>> Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 1363 smp kernel seem to last a little bit longer before processes hang
>>>> and had to regress to kernel 1276.
>>>>     
>>>
>>
>> Please supply a bit more information about your system (M/B 
>> make/model, cpu, memory, components).
>>
>> I've used 1303, 1305 and 1312 smp kernels with no problems.  Have a 
>> gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P w/athlon 2800MP cpus, 2GB ram, nVidia geforce4 
>> AGP and 2-120GB WD SCSI drives under an Adaptec ASC-29160 
>> controller.  Everything runs great right from installation.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>  
>>
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