Bug 10538 – hang at boot with single pentium pro on dual board

Bug 10538 - hang at boot with single pentium pro on dual board

Summary:	hang at boot with single pentium pro on dual board

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2000-04-03 08:52 EDT by mandrews
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-09-06 10:50:54 EDT
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Description mandrews 2000-04-03 08:52:21 EDT

Installing Redhat 6.2 (and 6.1 too) on a HP Vectra XU 6/200 installs the
smp kernel. The machine has a single pentium pro (two socket on board).
Machine hangs at boot when first configuring processors:

...
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 50.18 usacs.
CPU1: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 199.7428 MHz
..... system bus clock speed is 66.5806 MHz
Error: only onbe processor found.
enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 16
Kernel panic: could not set ID
In swapper task - not syncing


I modified /etc/lilo.conf to use the uniprocessor kernelo and all is happy
- really just an annoyance (for me ... it stopped several others here from
installing).

Comment 1 Brock Organ 2000-04-25 15:23:59 EDT

This problem seems hardware specific ... we don't have the exact hardware
described in the report in our test lab, but using a generic Pentium SMP
motherboard w/ONE processor (Asus P/E - P55T2P4D) works without trouble...

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2000-08-09 11:30:15 EDT

We are unable to reproduce this behavior.  Please re-open if problem continues
with Pinstripe.

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