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richone
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 Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 2:08 am Post subject: [FIXED]powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS |
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I am on a dual Opteron system using the MSI K8T Master-2 FAR motherboard from MSI with 1GB ECC Registered RAM (Memtested just fine), Nvidia video. When I do an smp boot from the 2004.1 CD, I get the following error:
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powernow-k8: Found 2 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.20.08b - March 20,2004)
powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure
Unables to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000028 RIP:
<ffffffff80120ada>{powernowk8_verify+10}PML4 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 0
<.....omited stack and call trace.....>
<0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
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I have booted with smp nohotplug, smp idle=poll, smp nohotplug idle=poll
I am lost beyond this. Non-SMP boots, but I am cannot get through bootstrap.
Any ideas?
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Little Nemo
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:51 am Post subject: |
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As the powernow-k8 seems to be the culprit, you could try to install from a non-SMP kernel and later compile your own kernel without powernow.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "cannot get through bootstrap" though. |
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richone
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Little Nemo wrote: | As the powernow-k8 seems to be the culprit, you could try to install from a non-SMP kernel and later compile your own kernel without powernow.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "cannot get through bootstrap" though. |
I can boot the non-SMP kernel, but I get stuck when I run the bootstrap.sh or bootstrap-2.6.sh. I'll open a new topic for that issue.
I would prefer building in SMP since I have the ability, but if nobody has any other ideas I guess I am SOL. |
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richone
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it was fixed by using the 2004.0 CD instead of the 2004.1 CD (why does the 2004.1 CD suck so bad?).
The good news is I went from a bare system to a completely working KDE environment with Nvidia driver in 6 hours. |
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brodo
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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The cause is a nasty little bug in the powernow-k8 driver. Sent a fix to the cpufreq mailing list a few minutes ago; should be in -mm in the next few days.
Thanks for reporting this issue. |
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Seclar
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: Still broken |
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I am building a new Dual Opteron server with exactly the same motherboard and 1Gb ECC Registered RAM.
I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2 Universal and I get the same error when the cd boots. However, the bootstrap continues and leaves me with the login prompt, but it fails to discover my hardware. So I am left with no network card or hard drives in /dev/hd[a,b,d]. Interestingly enough the cdrom hdc is there.
I've just downloaded Gentoo 2004.1 and the smp kernel panics when I boot it. However, the 2004.1 non-smp kernel boots and discovers all my hardware where the 2004.2 would not !
Any suggestions on where to go from here? This is my first AMD64 Gentoo, but I've been running Gentoo on i386 for 18 months.[/quote]
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richone
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: |
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After boot (with 2002.2):
And your drives will be available.
You also have to modprobe the network driver, but since that box is off at the moment, I can't look up the driver name. Search for broadcom gigabit in the kernel source tree.
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Seclar
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:04 am Post subject: Better |
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Well that certainly got the hard disks visible - thanks.
I searched for the network driver and found "tg3", which appears to be the Broadcom Gigabit one. I modprobed it and it loaded. I then started the network and it complained:
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Seems a tad odd.
Incidentally, the 2004.2 would only boot the non-smp kernel. Did you manage to boot the smp one? I get a screen full of "driver null" rubbish followed by a lock. Only the "gentoo" kernel will boot.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:43 am Post subject: |
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I don't know about smp but most of the single cpu boxes must be booted with the noapic option, at the risc of freezes or kernel panics and other strange behaviours.
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Seclar
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: Solution |
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Ok so I've managed to shoe-horn Gentoo onto the machine.
The network driver for the on-board Broadcom Gigabit is "tg3" but I could not get this to work (see my above post). So I installed an Intel Etherexpress Pro 100.
I booted 2004.2 Universal, selected "Gentoo" kernel with no options. This gave me a prompt but some hardware was not detected. The then did
| Code: | modprobe ide-disk
modprobe eepro100 |
That gave me access to my drives and the network. I then did a stage 3 install (stage 1 had failed previously overnight) and built a 2.6.8 kernel using the gentoo-dev-sources. Installed grub (lilo doesn't work on amd64 yet apparently?) and followed through with the Gentoo handbook instructions (I used sysklogd for the logger and vixie-cron for the cron).
I then rebooted and, to my amazement it worked 
Currently I am emerging the KDE (81 packages). I shall then attempt to remove the Intel network card and get the tf3 driver working with the internal card.
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Seclar
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject: tg3 Fine |
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The tg3 driver was fine and loaded correctly. I have now removed the installation network card I had to use.
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