From: "Chris Rankin" <rankincj@yahoo.com>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22!
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:24:09 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030808082409.29780.qmail@web40607.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308071651340.12315-100000@einstein31.homenet>
--- Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, yes, he can do it from within initrd.
> Hope that is early
> enough for him.
Hi,
Yes, I think I'll go the initrd route. However,
hammering on the machine last night reproduced the
malfunction regardless of whether the microcode was
loaded or not!
(Addressing list in general:)
This board (Supermicro PIIIDME, i840 chipset) has been
stable for almost 3 years, since between 2.4.0-pre6
and 2.4.0-pre9 IIRC. All recent hangs and lock-ups
have been attributable to the IO subsystem in 2.4.20,
and it just ran 2.4.21 for 3 solid weeks. The only
thing that has really changed recently is the weather,
but the lm_sensors package (2.6.5) reports that
everything is fine.
Booting with "acpi=off" has so far prevented the
kernel from hanging just after the "Freeing unused
kernel memory" message. However, the kernel still hung
later: the first time was when reading lm_sensors
after one CPU had reached the magic BIOS setting of 55
degrees C under high load. This hang took out the
keyboard, mouse and serial console straight away, but
left the ethernet interface running for a few minutes.
The second hang was more spontaneous, and killed the
box outright.
Do ATX power supplies have temperature sensors built
into them? I have just upgraded my PSU from 300W to a
brand new 400W one, so doubt that it's faulty. Could
the power supply be triggering a temperature-related
ACPI event? I seem to recall the boot-log mentioning
assorted S and C events being supported. (Can't
remember which ones exactly: S0 and S3?)
And I have already run memtest for 2 hours without
problems.
Cheers,
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-08 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-07 12:28 Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22! Chris Rankin
2003-08-07 13:04 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-07 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-07 14:38 ` Chris Rankin
2003-08-07 14:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-07 15:21 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-07 15:41 ` Chris Rankin
2003-08-07 23:12 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2003-08-07 15:57 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-08-07 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08 8:24 ` Chris Rankin [this message]
2003-08-07 17:40 Nakajima, Jun
2004-01-13 19:00 ` Alan Cox
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