Hi, after a frustrating weekend I finally installed and booted SUSE 9.3. It was maybe not the most intelligent way to make it work, but it worked anyway ... The BIOS is most likely up to date. At least I have not found updates on Tyan's website The key was to change BIOS settings. Also the power management was disabled using Yast. Here are the details: 1. System: Tyan S2895UA2NRF motherboard 2x252 Opteron 4Gb RAM (4x1Gb) or 8Gb (8x1Gb) PC3200 400DDR Infineon NVidia 6800 GT 2x160GB SATA Western Digital HD Audigy 2 ZS Sound Blaster 2. BIOS finds both CPU's, all system memory and reports 200Mhz CPU clock. 3. For whatever reason SuSE installer can see only one CPU, no matter how much memory installed. The only difference is that when 4gB installed, the system boots and crashes after install, while when it's 8Gb, it does not boot at all. The only way to boot it was to start installation again and when you are past language selection and prompted with choices "install", "repair", etc choose "boot installed system". Obviously it has drivers and kernel in memory and can boot. The catch is that it uses default, not smp kernel, with all consequences. That is, most of the necessary modules are not loaded, since it's default kernel is running, but smp kernel was installed (/lib/modules/2.6.11 .... has smp modules). 4. The situation was rectified when I disabled powermanagement in Yast and enabled "Node Memory Interleave" in BIOS. After that the system booted. Don't ask me why that helped, it's just a guess. 5. Below are the grub entries and BIOS settings. I hope it will be useful. ====================================================== /boot/grub/menu.lst : # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun May 15 00:28:40 UTC 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd1,0)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb5 vga=0x31a selinux=0 splash=silent console=tty0 resume=/dev/sdb7 showopts initrd (hd1,0)/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb5 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off iommu=noforce 3 initrd (hd1,0)/initrd ====================================================== Phoenix BIOS settings: Main: Installed OS: Linux BIOS Date: 02/21/05 BIOS Version: 1.00.2895 Advanced: Secured Setup Config: No Reset Config Data: No Hummer Config: HTLDT: 1000 ECC: Enable ECC Scrub Redirect: Disable DRMA ECC Scrub STL: Disable MemClock: Auto Node Mem Interleave: Enabled or Auto DRAM Bank Interleave: Auto 4 GB Mem Hole Adjust: Auto 4 Gb Mem Hole Size: 1280 DDR Clock jitter: Enable Mem Mapping: Disable Enable all Memory Clocks: Populated Controller Config mode: Auto Timing Config Mode: Auto Integrated Dev: USB Ctl: USB1.1+USB2 USB BIOS Legacy Supp: Disabled MAC LAN: Enabled MAC LAN Bridge: Enabled MAC ADDr: 00E0815486B2 Audio Codec: Enabled SATA0 Controller: Enabled SATA1 Controller: Enabled Interrupt Mode: APIC Slave Dev Config: MAC LAN: Enabled MAC LAN Bridge: Enabled MAC ADDr: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx NV Raid Config: Disabled FirstWare Config: FirstWare Language: English FirstWare Auth Level: High Firstware Video Mode: 1024x768 PCI Config: PCI Device, Slot #1: Option RAM Scan: Enabled Enable Master: Enabled Latency Timer: 0040h PCI Device, Slot #2: Option RAM Scan: Enabled Enable Master: Enabled Latency Timer: 0040h PCI Device, Slot #3: Option RAM Scan: Enabled Enable Master: Enabled Latency Timer: 0040h PCI Device, Slot #4: Option RAM Scan: Enabled Enable Master: Enabled Latency Timer: 0040h PCI Device, Slot #5: Option RAM Scan: Enabled Enable Master: Enabled Latency Timer: 0040h PCI Device, Slot #6: Option RAM Scan: Enabled Enable Master: Enabled Latency Timer: 0040h PCI Layout: PCI-Express PCI 32bit PCI-Express PCIX 100Mhz PCIX 100Mhz PCIX 133Mhz Integrated SCSI Controller: Integrated SCSI: Enabled Enabled Master: Disabled Latency Timer: Default Integrated 1394: Integrated 1394: Enabled PCI/PNP ISA UMB Region Exclusion: C800-CBFF: Available CC00-CFFF: Available D000-D3FF: Available D400-D7FF: Available D800-DBFF: Available DC00-DFFF: Available PCI/PNP ISA IRQ Resource Exclusion: IRQ 3: Available IRQ 4: Available IRQ 5: Available IRQ 7: Available IRQ 9: Available IRQ 10: Available IRQ 11: Available IRQ 15: Available IDE Config: Large Disk Access Mode: DOS Local Bus IDE Adapter: Primary IDE Channel 0 Master [CD-ROM]: Type: Auto Multi-Sector Transfers: Disabled LBA Mode Ctl: Disabled 32 Bit I/O: Disabled Transfer Mode: FPIO 4/DMA2 UltraDMA MOde: DMA2 IDE Channel 0 Master [None]: Type: Auto Multi-Sector Transfers: Disabled LBA Mode Ctl: Disabled 32 Bit I/O: Disabled Transfer Mode: Standard UltraDMA MOde: Disabled Floppy Config: Floppy Disk Controller: Auto Legacy Diskette A: .44/1.25M 3 1/2" Legacy Diskette B: Disabled I/O Device Config: Serial Port A: Auto Serial Port B: Auto Mode: Normal Memrory: Mem Cache: Enabled Cache Sys BIOS Area: Write Back Cache Video BIOS Area: Write Back Cache Base 0-512K: Write Back Cache Base 512-640K: Write Back Cache Ext Mem Area: Write Back Cache A000-Afff: Disable Cache B000-Bfff: Disable Cache C800-CBFF: Disable Cache CC00-Cfff: Disable Cache D000-D3FF: Disable Cache D400-D7ff: Disable Cache E000-E3FF: Disable Cache E400-E7FF: Disable Cache E800-EBFF: Disable Cache EC00-EFFF: Disable Ext Memory: 8386560 K Cache RAM: 1024K Sys Mem: 608K Security: Supervisor Passwd: Clear User Paswd: Clear Fixed disk boot sector: Normal Diskette Access: Supervisor Virus Check Remnder: Disable System Backup Reminder: Disable Boot: Quickboot Mode: Enabled Quietboot Mode: Enabled Summary Screen: Enabled Boot Dev Priority: 1. Floppy 2. Ide0 3. IDE CD: LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-5235K- 4. PCI SCSI: WDC WD1600JD-22HBB0 5. PCI BEV Excluded from boot order: 1. IDE1 2. USB FDC 3. USB HDD 4. USB CDROM 5. USB ZIP Power: ACPI S3: Disabled Spread Spectrum: Disabled After Power Failure: Last State ====================================================== --- "Black, Alain" <ablack@bloodsystems.org> wrote:

Are you at the latest BIOS release for the motherboard?

Does specifying "acpi=off" include "pci=noacpi" for a boot option?

-----Original Message----- From: Dima [mailto:bryga66@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:06 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Tyan s2895, SUSE 9.3 install/boot problem

Hi, sorry for erroneous first post - accidentally hit "send" button.

I'm having a problem installing and booting SUSE 9.3 on Tyan s2895 board: Tyan S2895UA2NRF motherboard 2x252 Opteron 4 RAM (4x1Gb)

SUSE itself installs ok (default system with KDE). After initial boot it reconizes and configure all hardware. But when I boot and it comes to a point when it "starting powersaved" it crashes. I tried to pass option "acpi=off apm=off" but it did not help either. If I boot it in "failsafe mode" it crashes with kernel panic.

Did anybody had/has same problem ?

Dima.

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