Re[2]: dual opteron problems

Re[2]: dual opteron problems

[Corin Langosch]

Hi!

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sorry for posting again, but couldn't anyone help me?
would be more than nice!!
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thanks you your reply. unluckily i cant find an option
for that in the bios. its the latest bios available.

one more debug output:
when the system hangs after "vfs: mounted root (cramfs filesystem)"
it sometimes outputs:
CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000000000004
Bank 4: b200000000000000000070f0f
Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt

can anyone help me with that? would be really nice!!
does anybody have a running dual opteron system here?
could anyone tell if my hardware has errors or if
this is software related..?

Thanks,
Corin

Thursday, May 20, 2004, 7:21:57 AM, you wrote:
VGI> I have an ancient dual processor Pentium III machine (ASUS CUV4X-DLS)
VGI> for which I had to disable MPS 1.4 in the BIOS to get it to work.
VGI> Apparently there's not much difference between MPS 1.1 and 1.4. Give it
VGI> a whirl. At worst it'll cost you two reboots.
 
VGI> --- Vladimir

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>>>>>> "cl" == Corin Langosch <corinl@gmx.de> writes:

VGI>     cl> 
VGI>     cl> Hi all,
VGI>     cl> i just bought a new 2x244 opteron,tyan tiger k8s 2870,
VGI>     cl> 4gb registered ecc ram system. no addional cards
VGI>     cl> inserted, only one IDE and one SATA device.
VGI>     cl> 
VGI>     cl> i tried to run the setup with the original debian
VGI>     cl> kernel 2.6.6-1-k7-smp, but the system hangs right
VGI>     cl> after the line "initrd-tools: 0.1.69".
VGI>     cl> 
VGI>     cl> so i downloaded the sources for 2.6.6 and compiled
VGI>     cl> them myself, optimized for dual opteron. unluckily
VGI>     cl> exactly the same happens.
VGI>     cl> 
VGI>     cl> when i enable the apic 2.0 support in the bios, the
VGI>     cl> system hangs even ealier right after the first
VGI>     cl> "calibrating delay loop...".
VGI>     cl> 
VGI>     cl> when i boot the system with the "nosmp" and apic 2.0
VGI>     cl> disabled (normal apic still enabled) the system
VGI>     cl> hangs somewhere after "hda: max request size...".
VGI>     cl> 
VGI>     cl> the only way to get the system running is to fully
VGI>     cl> disable the apic support in the bios and run the
VGI>     cl> system with "nosmp". :-(((
VGI>     cl> 
VGI>     cl> i hope that anyone could help me,
VGI>     cl> corin
VGI>     cl> 
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Re: dual opteron problems

[Tom Vier]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:04:14AM +0200, Corin Langosch wrote:
> sorry for posting again, but couldn't anyone help me?
> would be more than nice!!

i think this is errata 96(?). tyan has a bios upgrade for it, and other
companies should too.

i got it when i first put my box together and i haven't seen it since i
upgraded the bios.

> CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000000000004
> Bank 4: b200000000000000000070f0f
> Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt

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