Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:24:14 +0200 | From | Stefan Ring <> | Subject | Re: devel kernel wont boot |
| |
Matthew Bader wrote: > > I just joined the list to see if I could get some help with getting a > recent devel kernel to boot on my system. I have a Tyan Tomcat III S1563S > board. It is a single CPU board, but there is a versin of it that can > accept two. When I try to boot 2.1.125 or 124 (these are the only ones > I've tried) it hangs. Here are the kernel messages that I can see, before > this it scrolls by to fast.. > > Total of 2 processors enabled > enabling symmetric IO mode > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs > init IO-APIC IRQs > IO-APIC pin 0 > ..... here lots of numbers listed ........ > not connected > MP-BIOS bug 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > ..trying to set up timer as ExtINT ..... (found Pin 0) ... failed > ..trying to set up timer as BP IRQ...failed > Kernel panic: IO-APIC timer doesn't work! > In swapper task - no syncing > > (hangs here) > > In the mailing list archive I found some stuff about IO-APIC timers and > some patches. My question is is there a current patch or workaround for > this, and if so does it also fix the detection of 2 CPUs when I only have > one? Or is my board screwed?
It's important to use a UP version of the kernel: Comment out SMP=1 in the Makefile
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |