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Re: DualCore Dual-Opteron Board - suggestion?



On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:12:49 -0500
Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 16:02 -0500, Austin Denyer wrote:
> > I believe there is an issue with kernels < 2.6.14-2 with Opteron
> > SMP. That is why I'm running 2.6.14-2 myself.
> > 
> > The issue was an AMD errata rather than a bug with the kernel -
> > 2.6.14-2 contained a workaround.
> 
> I have a dual/dual machine (265/S940, Tyan S2891) which has trouble
> net-booting, while other dual/single core machines do fine: on the
> dual/dual, dhclient sends a request, the server replies, dhclient
> doesn't seem to get the reply.
> 
> Could this kernel issue be causing my problem?

I don't know, but it's possible.

What kernel are you running at the moment?

You may want to try it on 2.6.14-2.

apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-2-amd64-k8-smp

Regards,
Ozz.

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