Bug 121868
Summary: | Dual Opteron 248 w/ 8GB memory initrd decompression failure. | ||||||||||||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bryan Stillwell <bryans> | ||||||||||||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> | ||||||||||||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||||||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||||||
Version: | rawhide | ||||||||||||||||
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Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||||||
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Last Closed: | 2004-05-06 15:57:09 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||||||
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Description
Bryan Stillwell
2004-04-28 19:11:28 UTC
Created attachment 99745 [details]
Output of /proc/cpuinfo
Created attachment 99746 [details]
Output of /proc/meminfo with 8GB in machine
Created attachment 99747 [details]
Output of /proc/meminfo with 4GB in machine
Created attachment 99748 [details]
dmesg output with 8GB in machine
Created attachment 99749 [details]
dmesg output with 4GB in machine
Created attachment 99750 [details]
Output of uname -a
The frequency is more like 80%, not 20%. It only boots successfully 20% of the time, and I while I doubt it would complete an install during that 20%, I haven't tried yet. Just tested on a Riowork Arima HDAMA board with dual 246s and 8GB ram, and everything worked smoothly. However, I still have to get the Tyan board working if I can. But this shows that it's not related to the SCSI card, and x86_64 fedora can handle 8GB ram. Adding "maxcpus=0" to the bootloader options allows me to boot the machines consistantly w/ 8GB ram, but then only one cpu works... Bad memory on one machine and bad memory sockets on the other were causing the problem. memtest86 3.1a was very helpful in figuring this out. Although there is a problem with earlier 2.4 kernels (for example, SuSE 9 needed you to get a new kernel before working with two CPUs), the 2.6.5 kernel in core2test3 works fine. |