Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:43:30 -0500 | From | "Tim (Pass the Prozac) Sailer" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] SMP fixes 2.2.1 |
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On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Well, my Intel Neptune board with dual P120 doesn't reboot > > with 2.2, but it did reboot with Linux 2.0 (according to > > the previous owner). > > Ditto mine with a dual P90 - specifically if I say "noapic" it can reboot > if I let it run APIC mode it cannot. It appears to be a BIOS problem.
We had the same problem with some IBM Intellistations we are using here for our compute farm. Sending 1 machine back to IBM resulted in a BIOS patch, and the statement that it was a kernel problem. They claimed that some registers were being left with 'crap' in them resulting in an incomplete reboot. I still have the name of the engineer at IBM if anyone is interested in talking to him.
Tim
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