john <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:15:24 +0000 >john <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > >> Hi Gentoo. >> >> I have recently got a FX8350 and all is going very well. >> After a week of using I have had no issues and then realised I had >not >> set man number of cpus in kernel config. >> >> This was set to 6. So as FX8350 is an eight core beast. I decided to >> set to 8. >> >> Upon reboot the boot hangs at >> >> waiting for uevents to be processed. >> >> This hangs for 60 seconds and then starts spitting out the following >> >> timeout killing /sbin/modprobe -bv xcpu_vendor 0002 + lots of 4 long >> numbers. Sorry, I cannot trap these as they fly by. >> >> in a continous loop. >> >> Reset required. >> >> Booting from old kernel is still ok (6 cores set). >> >> Looking in /proc/cpuinfo there are only 6 cores. >> >> I can boot ok from Windows which shows 8 cores and I have also >updated >> BIOS to latest version. >> >> Any ideas >> >> Is there any way to detect or test that I using 8 cores? >> > >Have tried booting from Arch linux which boots fine and shows 8 cores >in /proc/cpuinfo > >I must be missing a kernel config option somewhere but do not >understand why a simple change from 6 to 8 cpus should make a >difference.
John. Have you tried comparing the kernel config between your kernel and the one arch linux uses? -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
