On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:09:45PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:36:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Problem: Quad-xeon 450MHz processors-- will boot an SMP kernel from > > floppy, but not from LILO. LILO can boot the uniprocessor kernel > > just fine. > > You need a fixed Lilo. Lilo from RedHat 6.2 should be ok. Thank you very much for responding to my message. I thought I had a fixed lilo (version 21.4.3, it's the most recent version available at http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo). Just in case, I also downloaded the lilo.rpm from redhat, converted it to a tar file and extracted the sources, then applied all the patches that were in the package. I compiled this version of lilo, installed it (via 'make install'), and then re-ran lilo. It still hangs in the exact same place. (All these details are included hopefully to point out what I'm doing wrong, and determine more quickly if there's a bug in the code, or a bug in the user. :) I've got the kernel compiled with magic sysrq turned on, and it looks like the system is locked up hard, because I don't get any response from the alt-sysrq-[tp] combinations (the only ones I tried). The other solution I've seen mentioned is to check for IO-APIC issues, but I don't think I have them because when the system boots the SMP kernel from floppy, I get no IO-APIC errors at all, and /proc/interrupts looks fine. Thanks, -ron - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
