Re: Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

[Mark Hounschell]

Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>    We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading
>    blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard).
>    Whenever we try to boot 2.4 or 2,5 kernel in there it decompresses
>    the kernel itself, states 'Ok, booting the kernel' and hangs.
>    We already tested these versions 2.4.15, 2.4.20-pre7, 2.4.18 from SuSE 8.0,
>    2.4.18 from RedHat 7.3 and latest RedHat beta (null), 2.5.36 (latest bk
>    snapshot as of now).
>    I remember I saw something like we experience now being reported on lkml
>    awhile back and 2.2 was able to boot in that case, so we tried 2.2.21
>    and it worked to our surprise.
>    We tried to install latest BIOS version available from MB manufacturer but
>    that did not help.
>    Unfortunatelly we are no longer able to find that mail with similar problems,
>    so may be someone have any ideas on what to do to get 2.4 (and 2.5)
>    up and runing on such a box?
> 
>    Thank you.
> 

I've got 6 of them here running SuSE 8.0. Hyperthreading was disabled in the
bios when Suse-8.0 was
installed and 3 of the 6 had the clock speed set at it's lowest setting when
they arrived but other than that there were no problems. HT was enabled after
the install of SuSE-8.0 and no problems there either. ?????

Mark