Re: Quad Opteron boot problem with FC2

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:35, Richard Cochius wrote:
> I got an Celestica *A8440* board with 4 Opteron 1.8 GHZ. The 
> installation runs without a problem.
> But I can't boot the SMP Kernel. I get an 'Kernel panic. Idle Task not 
> sync'. The problem, i found out, is the switch  'K8 NUMA support' in the 
> kernel config. If i turn it off the kernel boots with SMP support.

Is there a backtrace too? Can you bugzilla this please?

> The next problem is that i can not run initrd on the system. It tells me 
> every time that all loopback device are busy.

This too. (seperate bug).
Seeing whats going on using strace might be useful here.

> Does someone has the same problems or a solution?

Sadly not just yet.

	Dave