Bug 138859 - FC3 Kernel hang on Tyan S2881 motherboard
Summary: FC3 Kernel hang on Tyan S2881 motherboard
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
high
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Assignee: Dave Jones
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-11 17:24 UTC by Ladar Levison
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-07-15 20:49:08 UTC
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Description Ladar Levison 2004-11-11 17:24:03 UTC
I was able to install FC3 by using noacpi and mem=128m, but now the
kernel won't boot.

The UP and SMP kernels hang in different spots.

My system configuration is : 

Tyan S2881
Dual Opteron 246
4 x 1G KVR (Reg)
Adaptec 2120S Raid Card
6x SCSI Seagate 146G Drives.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Stock FC3 Kernel.

How reproducible:

Everytime.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn machine on.
2. Turn machine off.
3. Turn machine on.
4. Goto step 1.
  
Actual results:

System hangs while scanning PCI bus in UP mode, and right after
detecting the processors in SMP mode.

SMP hang point :

CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)...
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytesl/line)
System hang...

UP hang point :

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
System hang...

Expected results:

Sytem to boot...

Additional info:

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Comment 1 Holger Eilhard 2004-11-15 11:20:15 UTC
I remember issues with Tyan boards an Adaptec Raid Controllers. Do you
have the latest Bios?

Comment 2 Ladar Levison 2004-11-18 22:15:59 UTC
I changed out the RAID card for an LSI Megaraid, and everything
appears to be working.

One side note, when experimenting with this configuration, I
originally booted with 'linux mem=128m text', at which point
everything appeared to work. However, once the drives had finished
formating, the screen displayed a kernel panic, before copying the
install image.

I tried a second time, and got the same result. On the third boot, I
used no options, and went through the graphical installer. However, I
elected not to format the existing partitions. 

Now everything works like a champ. I am looking forward to
benchmarking this puppy.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-07-15 20:40:56 UTC
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which
may contain a fix for your problem.   Please update to this new kernel, and
report whether or not it fixes your problem.

If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem
still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version
field of this bug to 'fc4'.

Thank you.

Comment 4 Ladar Levison 2005-07-15 20:49:08 UTC
I have since switched to using a Tyan S2882 motherboard, with Red Hat Enterprise
4. I've seen no problems. Current uptime stands at 109 days using the stock
kernel. I also presently use an LSI RAID controller, and not the original
Adaptec one.


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