Sounds like an HPT/66 problem. I ditched the BP6 because it is a piece of
shit. At anyrate, what you might
try doing if you have your hard drive or any other device for that matter on
IDE 3 or 4, take it off and use
IDE1 or IDE2. I had problems with this during SMP operations (kernel panic),
while trying to use HPT/66 and
corrected it by doing just that.
The BP6 has a lot of other issues that make it not suitable for a server type
operation, I would suggest
using it under windows 2000 at this time until 2.4 kernel or ABIT makes this
motherboard right somehow (BIOS
update.. though QQ seems to work well).
> 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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