lockup during boot with SMP kernel

[Rick Stevens]

Todd wrote:
> 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.

Also try adding "noapic" to the boot command line.  This fixes many
problems with Athlon SMP boxes and I've seen it fix the problem with
several Xeons, too.
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