On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:53:22PM -0700, jehill@nexis.org wrote:
> I installed 2.2.12 on my dual PPRO and found that it wouldn't boot
> completely.
All right. Just in case anyone was looking in to this, I'll mention
that I solved it... It doesn't appear to have been a linux problem,
rather it was a BIOS problem. After reading through the linux-SMP
faq, I noted that the early Tyan BIOSs were just generally anti-social.
I flashed a new BIOS in place and now it seems to work.
A few notes about this problem so it can be more easily recognized
in the future:
The SMP/non-SMP issue wasn't was as clear cut as I first thought;
It seems to more of a memory layout / timing issue, because I managed
to get a non-SMP kernel to exhibit the same freeze when I used a
different configuration on the same machine.
I'm not absolutely sure that I 'solved' anything. I may have just
changed the timing in such a way that it no longer exhibits the
problem at all...
Josh
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> I installed 2.2.12 on my dual PPRO and found that it wouldn't boot
> completely.
All right. Just in case anyone was looking in to this, I'll mention
that I solved it... It doesn't appear to have been a linux problem,
rather it was a BIOS problem. After reading through the linux-SMP
faq, I noted that the early Tyan BIOSs were just generally anti-social.
I flashed a new BIOS in place and now it seems to work.
A few notes about this problem so it can be more easily recognized
in the future:
The SMP/non-SMP issue wasn't was as clear cut as I first thought;
It seems to more of a memory layout / timing issue, because I managed
to get a non-SMP kernel to exhibit the same freeze when I used a
different configuration on the same machine.
I'm not absolutely sure that I 'solved' anything. I may have just
changed the timing in such a way that it no longer exhibits the
problem at all...
Josh
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-----------------------------Joshua E. Hill-----------------------------
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----------------------------jehill@nexis.org----------------------------
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