Mike,
I've already tried acpi=off, apm=off, noapic, and vdso=0, none have had
any effect ...
- Jonathan
Mike Pepe wrote:
Jonathan Deitch wrote:
>
> Ok, followup ...
>
> I've installed from scratch, selecting "server", and allowing all
> defaults, both FC3 and FC4T3.
>
> Stock, off the CDs, both fail in SMP mode on my motherboard. After
> installing all available upgrades via "yum upgrade", both still fail
> ... even the much vaunted new 1363 kernel for 4T3.
>
> FC3 simply does the same thing (all IO ceases the second the kernel
> inits, so once login arrives it's dead)
>
> FC4T3 sees 3 out of 4 cpus (3 penguins) and instantly reboots.
>
> Anyone got any ideas? I find it absolutely ridiculous that no flavor
> of Fedora so far works in smp on my motherboard ... :-( Knoppix
> boots right into smp, no problems whatsoever.
>
> - JD
>
I've got a bunch of SMP boxes running FC3 and FC4T3. Not all SMP boxes
are created equal.
I've got a pair of Intel quad P3 Xeon boxes... they work fine, no
special stuff needed.
I've got 4 dual P3-1000 machines (Gigabyte motherboards) These things
suck. Unless you append acpi=off to the kernel boot string, they
randomly reboot, hang, freeze, etc.
And a Compaq DL380, won't run single or dual cpu correctly unless
acpi=off is appended to the boot options.
Try turning off acpi, that seems to fix lots of smp issues for me.