Unpredictable startup of IBM Blade HS20 on SMP type kernels.
I'm have Duel Processor IBM Blade server that I need to get Fedora 4 running on.
The server seems to be unpredictable when ever I try to restart or boot from a SMP type kernel.
It seems freeze intermittently at different stages. Other times it seems to boot up perfectly fine of a SMP type kernel, but it seems to more likley fail.
When I boot from a normal type kernel it seems to reboot more reliably.
I've tried different things like disabling and enabling Hyperthreding in the bios.
Here are some screen grabs and some config options when the system decided to run.
Has anyone got any ideas of what could be causing the problem and how to fix it?
Thanks
Tony D
grub.conf
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title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=noirq acpi=off rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
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[tdelov@blade14 ~]$ uname -a
Linux blade14 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 23:08:39 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[tdelov@blade14 ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2026 122 1903 0 6 61
-/+ buffers/cache: 55 1970
Swap: 6000 0 6000
[tdelov@blade14 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 28G 8.1G 19G 31% /
/dev/sda1 99M 31M 64M 33% /boot
/dev/shm 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
[tdelov@blade14 ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 3602.042
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 7110.65
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 3602.042
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 2
core id : 3
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 7192.57