Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I am experiencing the same problem w/ a similar PPro box using SCSI and IDE
> drives.  The system specs are slightly less though.  The 2.2.9-11 SMP Kernel
> stops after a PCI bus scan which dumps a table to the screen.  The other
> kernel for single processors is OK.  WHY?  I didn't bother to run the RPM
> for 2.2.9-27-SMP because of this.  Is there something I'm missing or that
> that later 2.2.X kernels fix.
> 
> System:
> Tyan Titan ATX Dual processor Pentium Pro MB (FX Intel Chipset)
Hmm...I'm beginning to think it's a bug in the way Linux
talks to the I440FX chipset. I'm assuming it's the Intel
440FX chipset you're using....