Since I have not had any problems with smp on my bp6, I checked the bios and this
is what I have
11/03/1999 - i440BX - W83977 - 2A69K1SC - NJ
NJ bios works well here.
Kyle D Reynolds wrote:
> 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
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > -
> > Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/
> > To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> -
> Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/
> To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/
To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
