Just updated to Fedora, won't boot in SMP

Wed Mar 31 02:17:08 UTC 2004

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 04:12, Klaus Steinberger wrote:
>  > I just upgraded to Fedora 1 from RH9.  Everything is working well except
>  > when I try to boot into the SMP kernel.  Right before running the INIT
>  > process the server just hangs.  When I chose the non-smp option, it blows
>  > right by the same spot, and give the standard "Setting INIT level 3"
> 
> I have the same problem with an Fuijtsu-Siemens RX300 Server. I did a fresh 
> install on it, and booting up with SMP Kernel did hang somewhere were it mounts 
> the local disks. I'm not sure as I didn't dig too deep into it, but I suspect 
> the aacraid driver. Do you also have an Adaptec Raid controller with the aacraid 
> driver?

To me , it looks like you've hit a well known bug related to SMP
stability... I've forgotten the bug id , but it usually happens during
mount/unmount operations on SMP systems...
Some people have reported better results using a kernel compiled from
the pristine sources from kernel.org...

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Pedro Macedo