From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Matt Brei <mattbrei@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enabling SMP causes boot failure
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:08:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45427560.4060302@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b15965f90610241810s7a167bbcy7d34a5269cc64d6c@mail.gmail.com>
Matt Brei wrote:
> I'm using 2.6.18.1 on a dual Athlon MP 1800+ machine with SMP disabled
> which works just fine. As soon as I enable SMP in the kernel, I get a
> bunch of errors about nbdX sending on a closed socket, the device
> mapper and the kernel fails with No volume groups found. If I disable
> Network Block Devices and enable LVM and Device Mapper, the nbd and
> device map errors stop but I still have the volume group error and a
> boot failure.
>
> Any idea why?
None, but things like this are related to acpi issues often enough to
make some boot time acpi options worth trying. Also: try booting the smp
kernel with the "nosmp" option. That's not the same as the uni kernel,
and might aid in telling unhappy kernel from unhappy hardware.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-27 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 1:10 Enabling SMP causes boot failure Matt Brei
2006-10-25 11:49 ` Erik Mouw
2006-10-27 21:08 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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