Fedora 8 and Dual Opterons - Seg Fault During Boot
Rick Bilonick
rab at nauticom.net
Thu Jan 24 18:54:17 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 19:40 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 12:36 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > I have a 64-bit dual opteron system that has run Fedora 3, 4, 5, 6, and
> > 7. I installed Fedora 8 (install not upgrade, default partitions) - no
> > problems of any kind were reported. When I rebooted to bring up the
> > system, a seg fault message starts repeating after the boot process has
> > progressed a short way.
> >
> > Previously, I had tried running the KDE and Gnome live distributions -
> > but for some reason, the display was unusable. I put in a Fedora 7 live
> > dvd and it boots up and displays without any problem. The computer has
> > an ATI Technologies RV280 (Radeo 9200 SE] display.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Rick B.
> >
>
> Can you redirect the output to a serial console [1] and post the output?
> I've got a large number of dual/quad x dual-core Opteron machines
> running flawlessly. (Fedora 7/8, RHEL 4/5, CentOS 4/5.)
>
> - Gilboa
> [1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/
>
>
OK, thanks. It will take me a while to figure out how to set up the
serial console.
Rick B.
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