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

Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Tue Nov 11 17:16:29 UTC 2003


Hi Joseph.

I thought I would just add my voice/concern to yours.

I am suffering from identicle issues as your self, and have also tried
compiling the kernel from the redhat-source package using one of the
provided config files, and modifying to provide SMP support.

I have 2 PII 350 CPU's, and compiled the kernel appropriately.

Below are some details for my system.

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lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
(rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
(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)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev
0a)
00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port
(rev 0a)
00:10.0 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics USS-344S USB Controller
(rev 11)
00:10.1 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics USS-344S USB Controller
(rev 11)
00:10.2 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics USS-344S USB Controller
(rev 11)
00:10.3 USB Controller: Lucent Microelectronics USS-344S USB Controller
(rev 11)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
00:13.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
02:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892B U160/m (rev 02)
02:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891/7890

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I am currently at work so can't provide the motherboard chipset, however
when I get home, I shall provide said info.

Doug

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:59, Joseph M Bironas wrote:
> Okay, my final post on this issue unless we can manage to get a thread
> going.
> 
> Background:
> 
> Fedora Core SMP kernel hangs when booting. I get the following output-
> 
>   Booting 'Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp)'
> 
> root (hd0,0)
>   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2155.nptlsmp ro root=/dev/Volume00/LogVol00
>   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x148493]
> initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
>   [Linux-initrd @ 0x1ff60000, 0x8dd39 bytes]
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
> 
> After some research I've discovered that most of the time this issue
> comes up as 1) The wrong architecture kernel, or 2) No VT module
> compiled into the kernel.
> 
> 2 Is not the case as I'm assuming the SMP kernel uses the same general
> VT config as the non-SMP kernel, and that shows output just fine.
> Also, I've recompiled the SMP kernel from source using
> /boot/config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp as my .config and verified that VT
> and SMP (and other modules that were needed) were in fact part of the
> compile. No love on any of those fronts, the custom kernel still
> refuses to boot. Which rules out option 1, the recompiled kernel is
> indeed from my architecture and still refuses to boot.
> 
> My question is, 1) Has anyone seen, and hopefully resolved this issue?
> and 2) If not, where is the appropriate mailing list to start having a
> discussion about debugging and solving this issue? It's a serious show
> stopper for me in the long run, and I'd like to participate in any way
> necessary to help solve it.
> 
> Regards,
> Joseph
> 





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