On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >David Bolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The system I've tried to install it upon is a Parallels virtual machine >> which is running under Windows on a dual Athlon system. At present >> Parallels only supports a single processor and that is what was seen on >> alpha2, the last alpha that would install on a Parallels VM. > >This should not be a problem. The SMP kernel should run on any UP >system. Two explanations: Parallels is broken or the SMP kernel has a >bug, ;-) It looks like it's more than just Parallels having a problem with the SMP kernel. Bug #204647 is it failing in the same way on a VMware virtual machine, and there's also bug #202079 where it fails to install on a K6/K6-2 system. From this, my guess would be that there's possibly a bug in the kernel that's shown up when using an SMP kernel on older hardware[0]. Just in case it helps, a little fiddling with the VGA kernel options, and maxcpus[1], has resulted in this screenshot: <URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/images/parallels_10.2alpha4-#2.gif> Just before the SMP line, and immediately after the freeing of unused kernel memory, there's what appears to be the kernel trying to execute an invalid op-code. [0] Not sure just what VWware identifies itself as but Parallels emulates an Intel 82815 chipset. It picks up the AMD MP1800+ of the system it running on, but only identifies it as a normal AMD Athlon. [1] Suggested in a reply to bug #204378. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
