Quad Opteron boot problem with FC2

[Richard Cochius]

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.
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>Is there a backtrace too? Can you bugzilla this please?
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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.
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>This too. (seperate bug).
>Seeing whats going on using strace might be useful here.
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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?
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>Sadly not just yet.
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>	Dave
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Richard