From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271298AbTHCWIL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:08:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271308AbTHCWIL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:08:11 -0400 Received: from [66.155.158.133] ([66.155.158.133]:51072 "EHLO ns") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271298AbTHCWII convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:08:08 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: joe briggs Organization: BMS To: John Bradford , bbeutner@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: issues with any ac sources, and 2.6 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:06:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200308032056.h73KuEem000277@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200308032056.h73KuEem000277@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200308031906.46052.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I got one of those in my office running 2.4.21-ac. It runs well. Do you want to try my kernel? Those boards are real sensitive to ESD and constantly loose their BIOS values if you swap a board out or pull a cable. I had one that refused to boot on me today and I just pulled and reseated the PCI cards and it came back to life. On Sunday 03 August 2003 04:56 pm, John Bradford wrote: > > i run a tyan tiger s2462 board with dual athlons, with the gentoo > > flavor on it, recently i tried to run the ac sourcess kernel on this > > machine, however upon boot the machine would just freeze up in the > > middle of kernel boot, either dying while attaching ide's to devices > > or while detecting the ide chipset, the odd part to this is that > > using generic linux sources the machine boots just fine the other > > issue seems to be that using the 2.6-beta versions it panic. > > it does so by telling me that i have corrupt cpu context and then > > panics, there are no hints or warning as to what it could be any > > help would be greatly appreciated > > For the AC kernels, try backing out just the IDE patches, and see if > that allows you to boot. > > For 2.6, does the machine finish booting, and then panic, or does it > panic during the boot? Did you try any of the 2.5 kernels, or did you > start with 2.6? If it panics during boot, does it always panic at the > same place, and if so where? Posting the boot time output of dmesg, > and lspci -vvv would be helpful here. > > John. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Joe Briggs Briggs Media Systems 105 Burnsen Ave. Manchester NH 01304 USA TEL 603-232-3115 FAX 603-625-5809 MOBILE 603-493-2386 www.briggsmedia.com