I'm having some difficulty getting an SMP machine - a NetFrame 6200 with 4
Xeon 550s and 1G memory - to boot an SMP kernel. We're using the mandrake
distribution (7.0), and I've tried the stock SMP kernel, as well as a
couple of kernels I've compiled, all to no avail. The system will boot
the UP kernel just fine. The boot hangs immediately (so it appears) after
boot/head.S finishes uncompressing/loading the kernel. This is what's
displayed:
Loading..............
Uncompressing Linux...Ok, booting the kernel.
And then it hangs. I'm kind of stuck at this point. I have communicated
with several other SMP folks, in particular some folks from NASA who are
running the same motherboard with 2 Xeon 500's, and a stock RedHat6.1 -
2.2.12-20 kernel, which I've also tried. The systems appear to have the
same BIOS setup.
Is there a way to get a dump of what's happening for debugging
purposes? I'm trying to weed my way through kernel/head.S, but I'm not an
assembly programmer. Any suggestions, including RTFM (if you'll point me
to a good manual), are most welcome.
Regards,
Scott
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Scott Ruffner Computer Science Department
Systems Engineer 226E Olsson Hall
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(804)982-2219
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