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On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:06, Kevin wrote: |
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> I've now tried a stage 3 installation booting the 2.6.1 SMP kernel from a |
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> 2004.0 LiveCD (the SMP configs on 2004.1 LiveCDs are all broken---see bug |
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> #49382). |
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I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I have a CD |
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(actually, a GameCD beta) available at |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/x86-ut2004demo-20040420.iso that you |
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could grab. It has only one kernel, and it is SMP. It has booted and |
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worked successfully on every machine I have tried it on, and even has |
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X+fluxbox on it. |
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> I had no lockup problems while running that kernel, but after rebooting |
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> with my kernel (gentoo-sources, built with Chris's |
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> CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer") I've already |
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> suffered two lockups. I set MAKEOPS="-j1" for safety. |
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Copy the kernel from my CD and the /lib/modules/2.6.5-gentoo-r1 and see |
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if that kernel works fine on your machine in your build environment. |
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> Something very weird here. Next, I'm going to try booting from the cd and |
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> chrooting into my system and then doing more extensive testing of the |
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> kernel on the cd, but I'm really running out of options here. I'll |
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> probably also try building another kernel with CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 |
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> -O2 -pipe". Any other suggestions? |
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Try my CD... it works in SMP. That will help test some of the problems, |
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especially since the kernel you are "testing" with is not SMP, so you're |
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not really testing anything. |
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> Does anyone think that my two CPUs having different stepping levels could |
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> have anything to do with this problem? One is level 7 and the other 9. |
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It is possible that is causing the problem. You never really know. I |
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*doubt* it should be a problem, unless one CPU is running out of spec. |
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> Greg KH thinks it's bad memory, but I'm skeptical of that because the main |
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> address that fails (some 30 times in a row) is at 1023.8MB and the Dell |
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> Utilities only test up to 1022MB, and because I haven't seen the problem |
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> with the liveCD kernel. |
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It still could be bad memory. I think I would trust memtest86 before |
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the Dell utilities. You could also try finding another bootable system |
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checker. I'm sure there are plenty available. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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