Bug 55040
Summary: | Red Hat Linux 7.2 locks up at boot time, athlon | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | grooved pavement <maulich> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 7.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2002-02-01 07:00:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
grooved pavement
2001-10-24 18:34:25 UTC
Is this an athlon cpu machine ? If so, does it help if you type "noathlon" as extra kernel option in grub (or add it to the lilo prompt if you use lilo) yes it is an athlon machine athlon 1.4 cpu abit kt7-a mother board and i have unplugged all usb devices and even disabled usb in the bios to no avail.... ok please try the "noathlon" thing in grub type "e" over the kernel, go down one and edit that line to add noathlon to the end of the line, <enter> and then <b> for boot. If that works, I'll help you make that permanent ok!@##$ that worked, it got me booted up and led me to hardware mangaer where i removed the VIA usb device.i sure would like to now more about this issue though :). ok the basic issue is that some bioses tune the VIA chipset beyond the memory bandwith it can handle, and under certain uses it does things wrong then. The kernel uses a very fast memory-copy routine optimized for athlons that triggers this condition, the noathlon option avoids using this routine, and hence avoids the "things go wrong". We're talking with VIA about it for a while now, and people on the linux kernel mailing list have found a setting in the chipset that makes a differnce, unfortionatly this setting is undocumented in the chipset documentation so we don't know if it's harmful or not. For your situation there are 2 options: installing the i686 kernel instead of the athlon kernel, or keep using "noathlon". To do the later, open /boot/grub/grub.conf in a texteditor (as root) and add noathlon in the place you used for booting before. very good sir. i thank you dearly for your time have a good day! *** Bug 55496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 55000 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 55144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 58369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 58240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** wohoo helped me out...but how can I install with the i686 kernel? And why Red Hat gotta be playa haters? :P Also note that the 2.4.9-21 kernel has a fix to undo the damage the bios has done. |