OH MY GOD, FINALLY someone with the same problem!
I have the EXACT same problems! I've asked everywhere and no one has a
clue. Everytime I booted an SMP kernel, I couldn't even get all the way
up. It always died in the same place, and it seemed to be where it was
touching the IDE interfaces. After a while, I discovered that it didn't
seem to like my CDROM drive (but only when I was booting an SMP
kernel). So I disconnected it, and sure enough, it came all the way up,
and I saw two CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo just like Jon. but then i started
getting kernel panics just like jon too.
Windows NT and Windows 2000 seem to be totally fine with everything. But
just as a last resort, I ordered a new board and new CPUs just in case
something was flaky. I'm expecting those in a couple of days. I don't
have high hopes, but I will try.
I also turned off power management stuff too. I also happen to be using
stock Red Hat 6.1, as well as my own kernels that I've tried building.
Thanks for listening :)
ed
At 09:23 PM 4/4/2000 -0400, Jon wrote:
>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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