On Sunday 06 October 2002 21:58, Lissimore wrote: > On October 6, 2002 09:09 pm, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 23:01, Brent Hasty wrote: > > > well the lowdown is this the problem was related to enabeling the ECC > > > ddr ram I have in this system. When I disable ecc in the bios the > > > kernel boots without a hitch, if I turn on ecc ram the kernel crashes > > > :( > > > > > > a big bummer since I paid premium for ECC for the obvious bennifit it > > > offers a server. Why is it that ecc would cause the kernel init to > > > hang and reboot in smp mode, but not in single processor mode? > > > > > > I would really like to have my ecc ram funcitioning. > > > > Odd. I have ECC in mine (ASUS A7M266-D). It's been enabled and running > > since day one. You've stumped me on this one. > > > > > > TTFN, > > Lonnie Borntreger > > Yeah, very odd. I've got 9.0 up on an A7M266-D and a > Tyan ThunderK7 both with ECC and both run like a charm > ... I am running the msi k7d-master-L, it will boot with ecc enabled but only in single processor mode. the crashing with ecc enabled is related to smp mode.
I will have to share this with MSI.
