RE: 2.2.1 SMP freezing on boot

Jeffrey Jones (jeffreyj@ami.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:09:15 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pape@ph.ucla.edu [SMTP:pape@ph.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 8:00 PM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: 2.2.1 SMP freezing on boot
>
> The 2.2.1 kernel is freezing on my dual PII-333 machine with MB440LX
> motherboard in SMP mode. After the kernel is loaded by lilo and the "now
> booting kernel" message appears, the machine locks hard.
>
> If the kernel is compiled identically but in UP mode, it works fine.
>
> 2.1.131ac13 and 2.0.36 boot fine (although the AMI MegaRAID driver isn't
> very stable in these kernels so I never actually get to a shell prompt,
> but the kernel boots fine).
>
Is this a different card/motherboard than the Intel one you had that isn't
supported yet?
If so, what card? (If not, I am still working out the hardware
differences).

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Jeff L Jones (jeffreyj@ami.com)
RAID SW Dev., American Megatrends Inc.

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