Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[Pim Zandbergen]

>Yes, I have the newest BIOS and SR Firmware.
>I have 2 x 1GHz CPUs and IBM PCI ServeRAID 4.71.00  <ServeRAID 4L>

You mean all of BIOS, firmware and Linux driver are at version 4.71?

Where did you find BIOS 4.71 and firmware 4.71?
The latest BIOS & firmware I could find is 4.50.

There is, however a driver version 4.72 in the latest 2.4.4-ac
kernels.

Pim

Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[ps]

Pim Zandbergen wrote:
> 
> >Yes, I have the newest BIOS and SR Firmware.
> >I have 2 x 1GHz CPUs and IBM PCI ServeRAID 4.71.00  <ServeRAID 4L>
> 
> You mean all of BIOS, firmware and Linux driver are at version 4.71?
> 
> Where did you find BIOS 4.71 and firmware 4.71?
> The latest BIOS & firmware I could find is 4.50.

Firmware is 4.70.17, I'v got it directly from IBM engineer.
Previous firmware (2 days ago) was really 4.50 but it performed worse
(was less stable in performance).

> There is, however a driver version 4.72 in the latest 2.4.4-ac
> kernels.

I've tried it but it was all the same - I came back to 4.71

Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[Leah Cunningham]

- > > >Yes, I have the newest BIOS and SR Firmware.
- > > >I have 2 x 1GHz CPUs and IBM PCI ServeRAID 4.71.00  <ServeRAID 4L>
- > 
- > Firmware is 4.70.17, I'v got it directly from IBM engineer.
- > Previous firmware (2 days ago) was really 4.50 but it performed worse
- > (was less stable in performance).

That makes a bit more sense.  This code is stil in test, however.
Previously you said 4.71.00.

- > > There is, however a driver version 4.72 in the latest 2.4.4-ac
- > > kernels.
- > 
- > I've tried it but it was all the same - I came back to 4.71

It still seems like a BIOS issue.  Does is work on a default RH
installation, with the RH included kernel?

             I can't believe it's not UNIX!!!
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Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[Alan Cox]

> hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000a0000 reserved twice.
> WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE

These are ok...

> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 14 ... ok.
> BIOS bug, IO-APIC#1 ID is 15 in the MPC table!...
> ... fixing up to 15. (tell your hw vendor)

Your BIOS tables seemed wrong..

> mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
> mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs

And your BIOS fails to set up the MTRR's properly. These are real BIOS 
mistakes. They are ones Linux however took corrective action on.

Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[Leah Cunningham]

Well, if you want I can try and reproduce your issue once I have
access to this machine.  It may be about a week or so.  RH 7.1 has
been tested on this machine, but not with ServeRaid 4.71. 

ps (ps@rzeczpospolita.pl) [010516 10:29]:
- > Yes, I have the newest BIOS and SR Firmware.
- > I have 2 x 1GHz CPUs and IBM PCI ServeRAID 4.71.00  <ServeRAID 4L>
- > 
- >   --  Piotr Szymanek
- > 
- > 
- > Leah Cunningham wrote:
- > > 
- > > This may be way off, but have you flashed the BIOS to the most
- > > current revision? This machine should work properly.  How many
- > > processors and what SR card are you using?

             I can't believe it's not UNIX!!!
------------------------------------------------------------
Leah Cunningham             |  SuSE Expert, NOS Engineer, 
Undisclosed Address         |  QA & Linux geek, et al.        

Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[ps]

Yes, I have the newest BIOS and SR Firmware.
I have 2 x 1GHz CPUs and IBM PCI ServeRAID 4.71.00  <ServeRAID 4L>

  --  Piotr Szymanek


Leah Cunningham wrote:
> 
> This may be way off, but have you flashed the BIOS to the most
> current revision? This machine should work properly.  How many
> processors and what SR card are you using?

Re: RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[Leah Cunningham]

This may be way off, but have you flashed the BIOS to the most
current revision? This machine should work properly.  How many
processors and what SR card are you using?

ps (ps@rzeczpospolita.pl) [010516 03:07]:
- > I'm trying to run Linux RH 7.1 on the rack-mounted 
- > IBM xSeries 240 with ServeRAID but without success.
- > I've tried some kernels from 2.2.19-7.0.1smp up to
- > 2.4.3-2.14.14.i686 and 2.4.4.
- > 
- > During boot all kernels reported errors (attached at the end).
- > When I try to write to disk (untar 100MB) machine almost hangs -
- > I must wait MINUTES for any simple "ll" or "who".
- > 
- > Thanks in advance for any help.
- > 
- >  - Piotr Szymanek
- > 
- > =================================================
- >    ...
- > 
- > found SMP MP-table at 0009e140
- > hm, page 0009e000 reserved twice.
- > hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
- > hm, page 000a0000 reserved twice.
- > hm, page 0009e000 reserved twice.
- > hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
- > hm, page 000a0000 reserved twice.
- > WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE
- > 
- >    ...
- > 
- > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
- > ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 14 ... ok.
- > BIOS bug, IO-APIC#1 ID is 15 in the MPC table!...
- > ... fixing up to 15. (tell your hw vendor)
- > ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 15 ... ok.
- > Synchronizing Arb IDs.
- > init IO_APIC IRQs
- >  IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 14-0, 14-5, 15-0, 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, 15-14, 15-15
- > not connected.
- > ..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
- > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
- > ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... 
- > ..... (found pin 0) ...works.
- > number of MP IRQ sources: 31.
- > number of IO-APIC #14 registers: 16.
- > number of IO-APIC #15 registers: 16.
- > testing the IO APIC.......................
- > 
- >    ...
- > 
- > CPU1<T0:1332736,T1:444240,D:6,S:444245,C:1332737>
- > checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
- > Setting commenced=1, go go go
- > mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
- > mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
- > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd34c, last bus=4
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             I can't believe it's not UNIX!!!
------------------------------------------------------------
Leah Cunningham             |  SuSE Expert, NOS Engineer, 
Undisclosed Address         |  QA & Linux geek, et al.        

RH 7.1 on IBM xSeries 240

[ps]

I'm trying to run Linux RH 7.1 on the rack-mounted 
IBM xSeries 240 with ServeRAID but without success.
I've tried some kernels from 2.2.19-7.0.1smp up to
2.4.3-2.14.14.i686 and 2.4.4.

During boot all kernels reported errors (attached at the end).
When I try to write to disk (untar 100MB) machine almost hangs -
I must wait MINUTES for any simple "ll" or "who".

Thanks in advance for any help.

 - Piotr Szymanek

=================================================
   ...

found SMP MP-table at 0009e140
hm, page 0009e000 reserved twice.
hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000a0000 reserved twice.
hm, page 0009e000 reserved twice.
hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000a0000 reserved twice.
WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE

   ...

ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 14 ... ok.
BIOS bug, IO-APIC#1 ID is 15 in the MPC table!...
... fixing up to 15. (tell your hw vendor)
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 15 ... ok.
Synchronizing Arb IDs.
init IO_APIC IRQs
 IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 14-0, 14-5, 15-0, 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, 15-14, 15-15
not connected.
..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... 
..... (found pin 0) ...works.
number of MP IRQ sources: 31.
number of IO-APIC #14 registers: 16.
number of IO-APIC #15 registers: 16.
testing the IO APIC.......................

   ...

CPU1<T0:1332736,T1:444240,D:6,S:444245,C:1332737>
checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
Setting commenced=1, go go go
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd34c, last bus=4