> -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Radez > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:46:01PM -0600, Nicolas WILL wrote: > > On my SS20 I compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with SMP support. I > discovered that > > the machine would boot beyond the simple kernel startup only > once every 5 to > > 10 trys. > > > > I then tried 2.4.19, then this week-end 2.4.20. Same problem. I > used either > > the kernel-source stable packages or direct source tarballs > from kernel.org > > with the same result. > > > > No such problem on my ss5. > > > > Any well know issue on that? > > It sounds like some people are running into problems like this.
Any fix they applied or it is still unknown? I would tend to discard hardware issues: I have no such problem in Uniprocessor, so it should not be a memory problem. I swapped the CPU's in their slots, and have the same problem in SMP, same great working system in UP. > Personally, I didn't have any trouble with my SMP SS10 back in August > when I was at home able to test out 2.4 on it. Some people seem to be > running SMP fine on their SS10s and SS20s. hmm... interesting... Could this be an OpenPROM version issue? I have the 2.25R, needed by my 2 Ross CPU's. > > > Another problem I have is with swapon under 2.4 kernel. It > segfaults... swap > > looks finely there as far as I know though. > > > > swapoff seems fine and happy. swapon segfaults.... During > startup or manual > > command. > > > > Any known issue on that? > > Known problem, but there are higher priority things to be fixed. The > swap still gets activated, so it's not that big of a deal. Agreed, just unsightly if swap is there. Is there any list of know problems? or FAQ? Thanks!! Nico
