process hangs on 13xx smp kernels

[Jonathan Deitch]

Mike,

I've already tried acpi=off, apm=off, noapic, and vdso=0, none have had 
any effect ...

- Jonathan

Mike Pepe wrote:

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>
> Jonathan Deitch wrote:
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>>
>> Ok, followup ...
>>
>> I've installed from scratch, selecting "server", and allowing all 
>> defaults, both FC3 and FC4T3.
>>
>> Stock, off the CDs, both fail in SMP mode on my motherboard.  After 
>> installing all available upgrades via "yum upgrade", both still fail 
>> ... even the much vaunted new 1363 kernel for 4T3.
>>
>> FC3 simply does the same thing (all IO ceases the second the kernel 
>> inits, so once login arrives it's dead)
>>
>> FC4T3 sees 3 out of 4 cpus (3 penguins) and instantly reboots.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas? I find it absolutely ridiculous that no flavor 
>> of Fedora so far works in smp on my motherboard ... :-(   Knoppix 
>> boots right into smp, no problems whatsoever.
>>
>> - JD
>>
>
> I've got a bunch of SMP boxes running FC3 and FC4T3. Not all SMP boxes 
> are created equal.
>
> I've got a pair of Intel quad P3 Xeon boxes... they work fine, no 
> special stuff needed.
>
> I've got 4 dual P3-1000 machines (Gigabyte motherboards) These things 
> suck. Unless you append acpi=off to the kernel boot string, they 
> randomly reboot, hang, freeze, etc.
>
> And a Compaq DL380, won't run single or dual cpu correctly unless 
> acpi=off is appended to the boot options.
>
> Try turning off acpi, that seems to fix lots of smp issues for me.
>