I'm running with an Abit BP6 board. I've had many problems with the
HPT366 controller, so I bought a promise ATA/100 controller. I recommend
you don't use ide2 and ide3 on the board.
Also, there appears to be other stability issues with the BP6 that I found
in the archives. Right now I'm running an experimental bios (I don't
recall which one), and I still get the occasional
Aug 12 16:57:56 frame kernel: unexpected IRQ vector 157 on CPU#0!
which causes my tulip ethernet card to become non-functional, and an
occasional DMA timeout problem related to my ISA sound card which freezes
the entire system within seconds.
I've tried 4 different bioses and 5 different kernels. I'm using the SuSE
kernel (2.2.16), with Mandrake 7.1, because it has LVM, ReiserFS, and the
IDE patch that supports UDMA.
>From what I've read, the BP6 isn't suitable for linux and you'll have more
problems than would be worth the trouble. Unfortunately, if I continue to
have problems with this board, I'll have to put another board in and use this
board with another OS.
Good luck.
-Troy
> > I enabled smp and now it crashes. I running an abit bp6 board.
> > 2 celeron 466's
> > 188m ram
> > no scsi
> >
> > If i disable smp in the kernel and rebuilt it, it boots fine.
> > Any suggestions or solutions. Is this my fault or a bug. Im not sure.
> > thanks alot.
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