On Sunday 14 September 2003 05:10 am, Philip Webb wrote: > [ cc to Mdk Expert, in case anyone else has helpful advice ] > > the retailer -- to whom i returned the Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 mobo -- > told me that Soyo had recalled them & were replacing them with new ones. > last week, i picked up a mobo, which i assume is a replacement > (i forgot to make a note of the serial numbers) > & i have now reassembled the box & tried it out. > > it seems to be an improvement at the BIOS level: > it recognises the processor as 'AMD XP 2500+' (correctly) > & defaults the DRAM clock to 166 MHz (previously it set it to 133 MHz ). > > however, there's a new problem: Linux won't start! > i had installed Mdk 9.1 , which is still there of course, > & Lilo comes up properly & tries to boot the system, > but fails with a kernel panic, which is quite new (Linux was ok before). > the lines on the screen are as follows: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference > at virtual address 00000000 > printing eip: c02360d0 > *pde = 00000000 Ooops: 0000
Not really sure which board you have. I have a Soyo Dragon KT400 Ultra Platinum. Not aware of any recalls surrounding this board and from what I have read on their site, they are not either. However, I have always had problems with the Hpt372 RAID controller on the board and Mandrake. I get a kernel panic everytime I try to boot when the RAID option is enabled in the BIOS. I did uninstall the hpt366 drivers and install hpt372 drivers and rebuild the kernel and this removed that particular problem but the stock kernel always gives a kernel panic. I just flashed the BIOS today to the latest version from SOYO and reenabled RAID just to try it out and got the kernel panic again. If you have RAID on your motherboard, try to turn it off and boot with the startup disk just to see if it makes a difference. Also, be sure to boot with noapic and acpi=off. Lastly, if you have more than 1 gig of RAM and a video card with more than 32 meg of memory, be sure to use the boot options mem=860M when booting. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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