On Sunday 06 October 2002 20:41, Brent Hasty wrote: > it seems all the trouble I was having with booting my smp kernel on dual > athlon mp, wer bios related. I set the bios on the msi k7d master to > failsafe defaults and wal la la... it now boots the smp kernel. Next I > tried the bios optimized defaults and tried booting the smp kernel, it > again booted withiout issue. > > I will now go through step by step setting my bios preferences and try to > locate the item that was causing the boot failure. > > More will be posted if the specific item is discovered. well the lowdown is this the problem was related to enabeling the ECC ddr ram I have in this system. When I disable ecc in the bios the kernel boots without a hitch, if I turn on ecc ram the kernel crashes :(
a big bummer since I paid premium for ECC for the obvious bennifit it offers a server. Why is it that ecc would cause the kernel init to hang and reboot in smp mode, but not in single processor mode? I would really like to have my ecc ram funcitioning.
