John,
I had the same problem with my W6-Li and Mandrake 6.0, since Red Hat
6.0(and Red Hat 5.2, and Mandrake 5.3, and Slackware v?) worked fine on it, I
figured it might have something to do with the pentium optimizations that
Mandrake did. I never had the time to track it down so I am just running Red
Hat 6.0 on it. Hopefully Mandrake 6.1 will work on it.
John Aldrich wrote:
> I've got a dual-PPro 200MHz Micronics W6LI motherboard.
> Whenever I try to use an SMP kernel, it ALWAYS locks up
> scanning the IDE bus. Also, it's VERY slow to count the
> memory on boot-up.
The memory check has always been slow on mine too(and I only have 64M on
mine.) I haven't seen any other memory performance issues, so hopefully the
BIOS is doing a more thorough memory check than other ones.
>
> Is this a bug in the SMP kernel or is it a problem with
> that motherboard or (more likely *sigh*) MY motherboard? It
> appears to have the latest Phoenix bios rev for that
> motherboard.
> I have 168-pin buffered 3.3volt EDO dimms in it (3 @ 64MB
> each) and these are the 256k L1 cache PPro chips. It also
You mean L2 cache.
>
> has vibra-16 sound on-board.
Mine has built-in SCSI but no Sound.
>
> Please write me back if you have any hardware questions.
> Someone suggested trying the "noapic" switch with LILO, but
> I haven't had a chance to try it yet. I compiled a new
> kernel (2.2.12) yesterday and it didn't work either.
> I'm using Mandrake 6.0 for my distribution.
You could try Red Hat 6.0 or another dist to see if that fixes it. Or contact
Mandrake to see if they might have a fix for it.
Mark
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