I have an older Compaq Workstation SP700. I loaded Windows Server 2003
Enterprise without a hitch for a class that I just finished. It has 2
SCSI drives (the third failed recently), so I kept the Windows on drive
0, and put Suse 10 OSS on the second drive, drive 1. After the first
disk installed it did the reboot, then failed to load the graphical
server. I was able to finish the install, including downloading the
updates (except OpenOffice and the newer kernel). When I try a normal
boot it freezes around the time the firewall initializes. (During the
install it froze at the syslog entry). I can boot to init 3 no
problem. I can not start sax2 (screen goes blank and freezes the
computer). I can not access the graphic card settings using YaST2 (same
thing, it freezes). I tried doing:
# sax2 -a
and
# sax2 -l
to no avail. Starting init 5 from init 3 results in a freeze. This is
a dual cpu machine (Pentium II Xeon 450 mhz) with a Gbyte of RAM. It
appears that Suse is having trouble using both CPUs. To add some
headache, this machine uses a NVIDIA graphics chip. During the install
Internet update I did download the nvidia.sh script, I ran the script
and it put me back at the command line without reporting any errors. If
I run top it does not appear to see the second CPU. When I run dmesg I
see a few errors:
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Processor #1 6:5 APIC version 16
WARNING: maxcpus limit of 0 reached. Processor ignored.
Processor #0 6:5 APIC version 16
WARNING: maxcpus limit of 0 reached. Processor ignored.
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SMP mptable: no processors registered!
BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!...
... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor)
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Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 449.011 MHz processor.
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Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 449.011 MHz processor.