Hey guys(and gals)!
I'm in the process of trying to setup a rackmount server to host my new
linux website on. I'm having (pardon my language) a sh*tload of problems.
Namely, anytime I try and use a SMP enabled kernel I get a kernel panic. I
can't figure out the problem. I've tried 2.2.14, 2.3.99-pre3,
2.2.12-20smp(rpm), getting the same error with different numbers. I don't
know if this is a hardware problem(?) or a software problem(Kernel bug
maybe?).
Nobody has been able to help me at all, and I've been re-compiling,
re-installing, and re-configuring for roughly 20 hours over about 3 or 4
days. Nothing seems to work. I _had_ it working with 2.2.14 for about 5
minutes (I saw both cpu's in /proc/cpuinfo), but when I rebooted again I got
the same kernel panic error.
95% of the hardware on this system is brand
new with the exception of the video card which is an old one I had in a
drawer and I used it because I don't want to ship off one of my good vid
cards with the server. (I doubt it would be causing the problem.
I've been using Linux for almost 2 years but I am still learning,
and this is my first attempt at a SMP system. Maybe you guys(and gals)
can help, or send me in the right direction.
I don't think it's a hardware problem. It was suggested that I
try installing Windows as a test to see if all the hardware is ok.
We installed Windows 2k and everything shows up as working
fine. Both cpu's, all the ram, and udma66 works.
Thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail, hopefully you might have
a better grasp at the problem than I do.
Sincerely,
J. Buset
The System:
Abit BP6 Motherboard (new, w/ factory bios)
-all power managment in bios turned off, as was mentioned in the
SMP-HOWTO
2 Celeron 500mhz ppga CPUs (new)
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 - 30gb hard disk (new)
Trident 1mb video card
128MB of PC100 Ram (new)
3COM 3c905b NIC (new)
Rackmount 2U ATX chassis
Here is a copy of the error I recieved with a Stock RedHat 6.1 "Server
Install" booting with 2.2.12-20smp RPM kernel right after install. I hope I
didn't make any copying errors, I had to type it on a different computer:
Welcome to RedHat Linux
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
Mounting proc filesystem [ OK ]
Oops: 0002
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<c0107a6d>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 00000000 ebx: c40ea000 ecx: c40ea000 edx: c0212b00
esi: c40ea000 edi: c0264d00 ebp: 00000000 esp: c40ebfb8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr:1, stackpage=c40eb000)
Stack: 00000000 c023e00c 00000000 00001100 00000000 c023dff4 c0239f70
00000001
00000001 00000000 c0110018 c0230018 00000078 c0107cd6 00000010
00000206
ffffffff 00000001
Call Trace: [<c0110010>] [<c0107cd6>]
Code: 00 75 01 f4 83 7b 14 00 74 dd e8 f8 ad 00 00 e8 23 54 01 00
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
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