Description of problem: Booting the Fedora 2 with SMP kernel jams the system. Message displayed as: Code: Bad EIP value. <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: [jari@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2392.838 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid bogomips : 4718.59 [jari@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) [jari@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Thu Jul 1 08:25:29 EDT 2004 The SMP version did not work, only single CPU version of OS can be used.
Mother Board: Intel Server Board SE7505VB2 for the Intel Xeon Processor.
If you boot with "acpi=off", does the SMP kernel still crash? Also, you may want to try a kernel from one of these sources and see if it still crashes then: + rawhide (a.k.a. FC-devel) + FC 3 test 1 + http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/
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