[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> doing a 'shutdown -r now'. Once I saw it say "Disabling symetric IO mode" and
> then it just sat there. It only did that once. Sometimes when it boots the
> machine will go through its POST and then just sit there without displaying any
> further messages. Most commonly it'll boot off of the floppy (using it to test
> the 2.1.xxx series), but when it gets to "Uncompressing Linux... done. Booting
> Linux" it will just sit there and not do anything.
> Every time a cold boot was necessary; just resetting didn't fix it.
On a single cpu box, I've had a similar problem, ie occational freezing, due to
too tight memory timings; it was just a single timing option in BIOS that caused
the problem; I'll need to reboot and look at BIOS to remember which one.
Think it was either the read-modify-write sequense or the ras-to-cas delay,
relaxing it one step back did the cure.
Dunno if the same might apply to your SMP box
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