SMP program with Dell PowerEdge 2500

[Jay Daniels]

That's it Chris!

nousb allows me to boot the smp kernel.

However, now I have no USB and had to convert my USB mouse to PS2
using an adaptor.  The adaptor is barely hanging in the PS2 port and
could work it's way lose if I move the system unit any.

I would like to get USB working.  Any idea how to find out why the USB
modules causes the smp kernel to hang but single processor kernels
work fine?


jay

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:41:06AM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> Just rebooted and I suspected it was the USB module.  System always
> hangs while loading modules.
> 
> I will try swapping my USB mouse over to PS2 and see if nousb works.
> 
> jay
> 
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:41:11PM -0400, Chris Allermann wrote:
> > I have several Xeon SMP boxes (Poweredge 2650's) running the fedora SMP
> > kernel.
> > 
> > The trick seems to be to add "nousb" and "noapic" to the boot parameters
> > in /etc/grub.conf.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 06:41, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > > I've setup my classroom with dual-boot Windows/Fedora Core 1, but 
> > > this was done outside of the class due to the time it took to setup all 
> > > the machines. Today, I brought  in a Dell PowerEdge 2500, and 
> > > swapped out the normal drives with  a new 36GB drive. Installed 
> > > from the two CD's that came with a Book, since this machine didn't 
> > > have a DVD drive. Install went thru fine, but it would not boot with 
> > > the smp kernel. It booted fine with the non-smp one. Went ahead, 
> > > and installed all the upgrades, and downloaded the last 2188 kernel 
> > > in both regular and smp. Rebooted with the smp kernel, and again it 
> > > locked. It locked will it said loading local drives. So, I did and 
> > > Interactive boot with the SMP kernel, and just went enter for all the 
> > > prompts, and it came up fine. Tried rebooting, and it locked again 
> > > with a normal process. It is locks with the local drive message, and 
> > > mouse and everything is locked. Not even num locks. It has a PERC 
> > > 3 controller, and I'm wondering if something is happening two fast 
> > > with a regularboot up, but the step by step puts in enough of a delay 
> > > to avoid this. I don't think it was using a special driver for the PERC, 
> > > since I only saw adaptec 7700 message.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > P.S. It has dual Pentium III Xeon 1GHz Chips and 512MB of ECC 
> > > memory. 
> > > +----------------------------------------------------------+
> > >   Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
> > >   Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
> > >   mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net                            
> > >   http://www.guam.net/home/mikes
> > >   Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
> > > +----------------------------------------------------------+
> > > 
> > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
> > > Number of Seti Units Returned:  13,199
> > > Processing time:  27 years, 334 days,  3 hours,  1 minutes
> > > (Total Hours: 244,539)
> > > 
> > >