On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:17:43PM +0200, Grzegorz Szyszlo wrote: [] > I attach full boot console. > First is 686 kernel. At the end boot is hanging, but I can > ctrl+pgup/pgdown, and alt+ctrl+del reboot server immediately > Next is 486 startup and last stopping messages. This works ok. > > I'm not exactly sure, ide cdrom driver cause problem. > > Sometimes system boot forward, after Uniform CD-ROM , > but ..... load module piix*** and definitly hang up. System not respond > for shift+pgup/pgdown and ctrl+alt+del . > I can't reproduce it on serial console.
OK. I don't have experience with such hardware. Try to select modules you need for basic boot, i.e. don't use MODULES=most in initramfs.conf, then manually load suspected modules, if you need them, of course. E.g. why piix* is needed on serverworks chipset? > I tryed to find option in BIOS that disable SMP, but .... > this is classical SCSI BIOS, booted from configuration partition. > There SMP options for Linux. I used this server on NetWare. > It is no matter, when I selected in BIOS NetWare or NetWareSMP. > Allways I coud use server as SMP. nosmp, noapic (see Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) > What should I do? For test remove one processor? > I'm sure, kernel has command to disable using apic, but I don't know what > this command is. I'll try to find tommorow. Good luck. ____ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
