From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261968AbTD3OKP (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:10:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262182AbTD3OKP (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:10:15 -0400 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:3001 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261968AbTD3OKO (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:10:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:22:05 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Wojciech Sobczak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3 Message-ID: <3270000.1051712524@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <01d601c30f17$f3ffadf0$b312840a@nbsobczak> References: <01d601c30f17$f3ffadf0$b312840a@nbsobczak> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm trying to boot from linux kernel 2.4 tree > i've installed rh 7.1 dist, but system seems only 3 procesors, so i made > 2.4.20 kernel with smp without NUMA support and i saw 4 processors. Next > 2.4.20 with numa support, and system hangs on mounting root filesystem (no > scsi devices found, ide devices lost interruption, no keyboard found etc > etc) > Next 2.4.21-rc1-ac3 without NUMA, 3-processors available > with NUMA support and summit/exa support and clustered apic support kernel > boots, found scsi devices but hangs on it with lost interruption, also > with ide devices and so on > machine has 4 HT processors and 8GB of RAM > any ideas or help? > > i don't wat to use 2.5.x kernel..... SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does. I'm not sure that any of the other 2.4 kernels work properly, though I can't say I've tried the latest updates to other distros - they might work, but I doubt 7.1 does - that's very old. M.