Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Allen Campbell
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:36AM +1200, Simon Garner wrote: > From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > > > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > > > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I th

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Allen Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Patience is likely to be effective. The chipset isn't exactly rare > being on SMP boards from Gigabyte, MSI, Tyan and Asus, and likely > others. I'm betting it will be fixed soon enough. UP and 2.2.x > kernels worked fine here if you're really despe

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I think it's trying to > > Known problem. Thats one reason why -ac trees had

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I think it's trying to Known problem. Thats one reason why -ac trees had nmi watchdog turned off. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Simon Garner
Hi all, > > However, the machine now crashes at "Configuring Kernel Parameters" during > rc initialisation: > > > Welcome to Red Hat Linux > Press 'I' for interactive startup > > Mounting /proc filesystem...[ OK ] > Configuring Kernel Parameters... > > > This is if I type

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Jeff Garzik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (private reply, because I have lost discussion context) > > Have you tried booting with 'noapic'? > > Thanks Jeff, this seems to fix the problem, and also fixes my problem with the aic7xxx scsi driver ABORTing multiple times at startup (which I presumed

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Keith Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Doesn't matter. The NMI-watchdog tries to detect SMP-lockups, and is > >always present. Unless you specifically disable it on boot. > > Not any more. In 2.4.3-ac* the default is no watchdog and it must be > specifically enabled at boot. > nmi_watchdog

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:09:18 +0200, David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:04:17PM +1200, Simon Garner wrote: >> Thanks, but I do not have watchdog support compiled into the kernel. > >Doesn't matter. The NMI-watchdog tries to detect SMP-lockups, and is >always pres

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:04:17PM +1200, Simon Garner wrote: > From: "Mikael Pettersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Boot with "nmi_watchdog=0" as a boot parameter. Does it work now? > > > > Some people have reported before here that the IO-APIC driven NMI > > watchdog itself can cause boot-time

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Simon Garner wrote: >I've compiled kernel 2.4.3 on the following RH7 system, and I'm now getting >random crashes at boot, during IO-APIC initialisation. Random meaning that >sometimes it boots fine, other times it doesn't, and it hangs in different >places (but always around IO-APIC stuff). It al

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Mikael Pettersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Boot with "nmi_watchdog=0" as a boot parameter. Does it work now? > > Some people have reported before here that the IO-APIC driven NMI > watchdog itself can cause boot-time hangs. > > /Mikael Thanks, but I do not have watchdog support compiled

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Allen Campbell
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:18:25PM +1200, Simon Garner wrote: > From: "Allen Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I th

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-01 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Allen Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I think it's trying to > `enable'. The hang would occur around 50% of boot

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-03-31 Thread Allen Campbell
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:15:38PM +1200, Simon Garner wrote: > Hi, > > I've compiled kernel 2.4.3 on the following RH7 system, and I'm now getting > random crashes at boot, during IO-APIC initialisation. Random meaning that > sometimes it boots fine, other times it doesn't, and it hangs in diffe