Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:36:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.19 boot failure |
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Jens Hoefkens wrote:
> > Hi Folks. > > I have a M54Pe-12M dual Pentium board with 2xP100. The machine boots > fine with a single CPU kernel (dmesg output [1] and kernel config [2] > below), but fails to boot with SMP kernels (config below [3]). > > All I get is the message "Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the > kernel" and then the system hangs (the keyboard is completely dead, no > numlock, caps lock, or Ctrl-Alt-Del). And to be sure, I have run LILO > after installing the new kernel. > > Since this is a toy project and not a production machine, I can run > any kind of tests with it... > > > Thanks, > > Jens [SNIPPED...]
There may be a configuration problem. Make sure that you do:
make oldconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install
... after you set the SMP variable. A mixture of SMP and non-SMP code can cause hangs.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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