From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263544AbTLDWFi (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:05:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263573AbTLDWFi (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:05:38 -0500 Received: from modemcable067.88-70-69.mc.videotron.ca ([69.70.88.67]:4224 "EHLO montezuma.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263544AbTLDWFb (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:05:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:04:01 -0500 (EST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: John Stoffel cc: grundig@teleline.es, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: SMP Kernel 2.6.0-test11 doesn't boot on a Dell 410 In-Reply-To: <16335.44623.99755.811085@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Message-ID: References: <16335.44623.99755.811085@gargle.gargle.HOWL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, John Stoffel wrote: > > Zwane> I have a dual PII PW 410 too but with an A10 bios, the attached > Zwane> config boots on mine. It's beginning to look like an ACPI/bios > Zwane> revision problem. > > I've got the A10 bios as well, and the system boots and works fine > with 2.4.22 + DM patch. I don't think there's a newer BIOS available > either, so that route is out. > > I did work on getting this system to boot at one point under the early > 2.6.0-test series, but it was unstable so I fell back to 2.4.2x and > I've been there since. > > It's also a very upto date Debian unstable/testing system as well. > > I've looked at the bugzilla notes, but nothing really pokes out at > me. I guess my next test is to try to compile/boot without SMP turned > on. That's interesting, that box has been tracking most of 2.5/2.6 development. So far i haven't hit any problems which were specific to it. This is in a dual cpu configuration. I'd be interested to know whether my .config boots at all on your system.