On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:15:24 +0000 john <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Gentoo. > > I have recently got a FX8350 and all is going very well. > After a week of using I have had no issues and then realised I had not > set man number of cpus in kernel config. > > This was set to 6. So as FX8350 is an eight core beast. I decided to > set to 8. > > Upon reboot the boot hangs at > > waiting for uevents to be processed. > > This hangs for 60 seconds and then starts spitting out the following > > timeout killing /sbin/modprobe -bv xcpu_vendor 0002 + lots of 4 long > numbers. Sorry, I cannot trap these as they fly by. > > in a continous loop. > > Reset required. > > Booting from old kernel is still ok (6 cores set). > > Looking in /proc/cpuinfo there are only 6 cores. > > I can boot ok from Windows which shows 8 cores and I have also updated > BIOS to latest version. > > Any ideas > > Is there any way to detect or test that I using 8 cores? > Have tried booting from Arch linux which boots fine and shows 8 cores in /proc/cpuinfo I must be missing a kernel config option somewhere but do not understand why a simple change from 6 to 8 cpus should make a difference. -- John D Maunder
