Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 138859
FC3 Kernel hang on Tyan S2881 motherboard
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:11:46 EST
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: I am single and I like long sunset walks on the beach...
I remember issues with Tyan boards an Adaptec Raid Controllers. Do you have the latest Bios?
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.
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.
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.