I had the same problem when I upgraded the BIOS. When you boot the
machine look at the long string of charcters at the bottom of the screen.
The last two letters should be the BIOS version. I believe the PW version
has problems with linux. The NJ which is older doesn't have any problems.
You can get the older BIOS from ABITs website or www.bp6.com.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, root wrote:
> 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
>
> John Peel
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