I put together an almost similiar system last week (using 466s)
and problem with the the SMP kernel too. On SMP boot I encounter
an "oops" hickup, which brings the system to halt.
System works fine though with the uni-processor kernel.
Reading carefully the SMP mailinglist, there seem to be
two important things to do. Using at least 2.2.14 and
get the latest bios of Abit. Found a copy of the Abit bios at
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/beta/bp6/bios/BP6_QQ.zip
Sorry, haven't tried it yet. Will post my results as soon
as I have more details. Let me/us know if case you find more news.
Matthias
> I just recently put togfether an SMP sytem using an abit BP6 two celeron
>
> 500's, 3dfx voodoo3 3000 agp, soundblaster live value, western digital
> ide hard drive, tekram dc390f scsi card, kingston kne30t ethernet card,
> and 128 megs of micron pc 100 sdram. I installed RH 6.1 on it kernel
> 2.2.12-20 from the cd. Anyway the install went fine but on bootup linux
> gets about
> halfway through the startup processes, and the screen goes black and it
> reboots.
> I can get a uni-processer kernel to boot no problem but it's the SMP
> that doesn't
> do it. I also compiled a 2.2.14 kernel with smp and it does exactly the
> same thing. I can't figure it out but I think it may have somethingto do
>
> with dma or irq's. I don't really know what to do or look for so I could
> use some
> help because right now I'm only using one processor thus defeating the
> point of smp. Thanks in
> advance, -peel
>
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