Re: Quad Opteron boot problem with FC2

[Richard Cochius <r cochius net-at-work de>]

Dave Jones wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:35, Richard Cochius wrote:
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> > 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?
>
>  
I'm sorry no trace. It happens just after kernel starts. But I can send 
you my kernel config of a runnig SMP Kernel.

> > 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.
>
>  
Solved the problem by loading the system in rescue mode. So I can build 
my own SMP kernel.

> > Does someone has the same problems or a solution?
> >    
>
> Sadly not just yet.
>
> 	Dave
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>  
Richard