Michael Gray wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Udo Woehler wrote:
>
> > The system runs fine as UP, but when running SMP it, it hangs as soon as
> > it has decompressed the kernel. Last message is "Now booting the
> > kernel."
>
> I had exactly the same problem, but I fixed it by making a boot floppy
> disk (make zdisk). If I boot off the floppy, all is well.
>
> I have seen one mention of a problem using LILO with SMP kernels, but have
> not been able to find a fix.
>
> If there is one, I'd be keen to hear it. It seems a shame to have to boot
> a 4-way Xeon machine off a 3.5" floppy disk! [Machine is Intel SC450NX.]
Try recompiling LILO with LARGE_EBDA support and then making sure to always
use make bzImage when compiling the kernel. That appears to have fixed the
SMP boot hangs here on Intel multi-Xeon boards. However, please note that
this also appears to break LILO in that the root= option no longer works, so
make sure you rdev your kernel image at the same time you run lilo to make
sure that the kernel loads the correct root filesystem at boot.
--
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