On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:12:56 +0200 Kees Hoekzema wrote:

Hello,

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 18:04, Santiago Flores wrote:

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Hello, I downloaded and installed Suse 8.2Beta. Straightforward install. No issues (other than having to turn off APIC - same for all other distros). The machine was up for about a week and a power problem required it to be shutdown. Now when I reboot the whole process hangs at the intialization of cpu #1. I have the same problem (with also a tyan board), unfortunatly i haven't a solution other than that it probably will boot with only 4GB, at least, that worked for me.

I think it is the tyan board, a tyan tech i spoke to last week also said he had heard of more problems concerning linux and +6GB installed.

We run fine with a lot more memory on other AMD64 systems. But it could be some board or BIOS specific problem You could try to boot with mem=4G or somesuch and see if it helps. Also you could try to see if a 32bit kernel boots (not install, just see if it sucessfully initializes the CPUs) Also does booting with nosmp or noapic work? -Andi

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:35:03 -0700 "Santiago Flores" wrote:

I haven't tried with >6GB. I will attempt it.

<6GB

I have booted succesfully with other nonsmp kernels (not SUSE so far). The failsafe kernel is having the same problem as regular SUSE kernel.

And how about other SMP kernels? -Andi

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:21:53 +0200 Andreas Jaeger wrote:

"Santiago Flores" writes:

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Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup

Please follow this advice! I don't think it will help but it's there for a reason.

The newer x86-64.org kernels also support a different method to detect the aperture that is more Windows compatible. That may fix it. (old linux kernels only looked in the northbridge, newer ones do also look in the AGP bridge) -Andi