I'm having further problems with booting any kernel other then the k_smp_2.5.19-191 that I am currently running. My system is a dual Opteron 244 in a HDAMB system board (Rhapsody?) with a mere 1Gig of ram. I have SCSI hard drive, and an IDE CDROM and ZIP drive. The AGP video card is a GeForce4 MX440. And otherwise it is SLES8. When I install (via yast) the 2.4.19-256 kernel, it boots only about far enough to print some ACPI messages, then it freezes. I set vga=0 on the boot line, little difference. So far, none of the "patches" for the kernel as downloaded by yast have worked for me, but I can boot the install CDROM in rescue mode, use rpm to install the k_smp_2.4.19-191 kernel, and I'm back in business. I can occasionally run tests, but I only sporadically have time to fiddle with this during the week. A nit: It would be much nicer if the kernel rpm packages *added* themselves to the grub file instead of replacing the existing boot config. This would then allow for multiple installed kernels, handy in train wrecks like this. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:00:57PM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
I'm having further problems with booting any kernel other then the k_smp_2.5.19-191 that I am currently running. My system is a dual Opteron 244 in a HDAMB system board (Rhapsody?) with a mere 1Gig of ram. I have SCSI hard drive, and an IDE CDROM and ZIP drive. The AGP video card is a GeForce4 MX440.
Does it work when you boot with numa=off ? -Andi
Andi Kleen ak-at-suse.de |suse-amd64| wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:00:57PM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
I'm having further problems with booting any kernel other then the k_smp_2.5.19-191 that I am currently running. My system is a dual Opteron 244 in a HDAMB system board (Rhapsody?) with a mere 1Gig of ram. I have SCSI hard drive, and an IDE CDROM and ZIP drive. The AGP video card is a GeForce4 MX440.
Does it work when you boot with numa=off ?
-Andi
No different. I installed the rpm, rebooted, and at the grub prompt added numa=off, exact same symptoms. I also tried vga=0 to see if I can see more, and again no difference. After the ACPI messages, ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1) ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1) it stops. With vga=778, it prints also that it is switching to colour frame buffer device befor stopping. I can send you the boot.msg log from a successful boot of the -191 kernel, if you are interested. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
I installed the rpm, rebooted, and at the grub prompt added numa=off, exact same symptoms. I also tried vga=0 to see if I can see more, and again no difference. After the ACPI messages,
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1) ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
it stops. With vga=778, it prints also that it is switching to colour frame buffer device befor stopping. I can send you the boot.msg log from a successful boot of the -191 kernel, if you are interested.
I have an HDAMB running here and it works fine. It needed numa=off iommu=memaper=1 on older kernels. Also an BIOS upgrade is an good idea, the first BIOS I got was quite buggy and had several problems. For the ACPI issues you can try acpi=off (don't use the failsafe option, only acpi=off) -Andi
Andi Kleen ak-at-suse.de |suse-amd64| wrote:
I have an HDAMB running here and it works fine.
It needed numa=off iommu=memaper=1 on older kernels.
Also an BIOS upgrade is an good idea, the first BIOS I got was quite buggy and had several problems.
Um, that leaves me in a spot. My system is Linux only and I don't have the crisis disk mentioned in the documentation I dowloaded from Rioworks. In fact, I found the PHLASH16.EXE executable, but no crisis disk image or utilities. I can call my system supplier tomorrow to see if they can supply it, but I'm surprised that Rioworks doesn't have the whole pack available. Shucks, with my alpha I was able to do this sort of thing rather painlessly.
For the ACPI issues you can try acpi=off (don't use the failsafe option, only acpi=off)
Will try all that. Is there A place where I can download the kernel rpms without resorting to the YaST2 Update util? -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
Last month I was on this list reporting difficulties with booting any kernels other then the kernel shipped with the SLES8 disks. The errors are described in the following quotes. The solution, it turned out, was to upgrade the BIOS on the HDAMB system board. The BIOS version 1.02 is now working, and I successfully updated the kernel. So, HDAMB users, a BIOS upgrade is highly recommended. Andi Kleen ak-at-suse.de |suse-amd64| wrote:
I installed the rpm, rebooted, and at the grub prompt added numa=off, exact same symptoms. I also tried vga=0 to see if I can see more, and again no difference. After the ACPI messages,
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1) ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
it stops. With vga=778, it prints also that it is switching to colour frame buffer device befor stopping. I can send you the boot.msg log from a successful boot of the -191 kernel, if you are interested.
I have an HDAMB running here and it works fine.
It needed numa=off iommu=memaper=1 on older kernels.
Also an BIOS upgrade is an good idea, the first BIOS I got was quite buggy and had several problems.
For the ACPI issues you can try acpi=off (don't use the failsafe option, only acpi=off)
-Andi
-- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
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