From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:59:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:59:29 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:6663 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:59:19 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.2.19 boot failure To: hoefkens@msu.edu (Jens Hoefkens) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:02:46 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Jens Hoefkens" at Aug 27, 2001 12:09:26 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I have a M54Pe-12M dual Pentium board with 2xP100. The machine boots > fine with a single CPU kernel (dmesg output [1] and kernel config [2] > below), but fails to boot with SMP kernels (config below [3]). > > All I get is the message "Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the > kernel" and then the system hangs (the keyboard is completely dead, no > numlock, caps lock, or Ctrl-Alt-Del). And to be sure, I have run LILO > after installing the new kernel. Can you boot it with a serial console ?