RE: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Radez
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:46:01PM -0600, Nicolas WILL wrote:
> > On my SS20 I compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with SMP support. I
> discovered that
> > the machine would boot beyond the simple kernel startup only
> once every 5 to
> > 10 trys.
> >
> > I then tried 2.4.19, then this week-end 2.4.20. Same problem. I
> used either
> > the kernel-source stable packages or direct source tarballs
> from kernel.org
> > with the same result.
> >
> > No such problem on my ss5.
> >
> > Any well know issue on that?
>
> It sounds like some people are running into problems like this.
Any fix they applied or it is still unknown?
I would tend to discard hardware issues: I have no such problem in
Uniprocessor, so it should not be a memory problem. I swapped the CPU's in
their slots, and have the same problem in SMP, same great working system in
UP.
> Personally, I didn't have any trouble with my SMP SS10 back in August
> when I was at home able to test out 2.4 on it. Some people seem to be
> running SMP fine on their SS10s and SS20s.
hmm... interesting... Could this be an OpenPROM version issue? I have the
2.25R, needed by my 2 Ross CPU's.
>
> > Another problem I have is with swapon under 2.4 kernel. It
> segfaults... swap
> > looks finely there as far as I know though.
> >
> > swapoff seems fine and happy. swapon segfaults.... During
> startup or manual
> > command.
> >
> > Any known issue on that?
>
> Known problem, but there are higher priority things to be fixed. The
> swap still gets activated, so it's not that big of a deal.
Agreed, just unsightly if swap is there.
Is there any list of know problems? or FAQ?
Thanks!!
Nico
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