On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:45 +0200, CM wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm looking for some insights on reproductible lockups with this server
> so please bear the long description that follows:
>
> Installed the 4.0 Centos than yum updated it so it results a 4.2 Centos
> fully updated. During the instalation and update there were no cold
> boots. That's important because if (updated Centos or not) you cold boot
> the server it stucks at the "configuring hardware ... storage" step. It
> does not matter the kernel version but if i choose the SMP kernels it
> freezes just a little later on "configuring hardware ... audio" step.It
> freezes at the same spot without kernel panicking.
> I altered the rc.sysinit file so that at the configuring hardware step
> it does not load any modules. It passes (forcefully) the configuring
> hardware step but it freezes at the next "Configuring kernel parameters"
> step. There are no errors in the log as the k(logd) is not started at
> that point.
>
> For a change, i installed a FC2 and it's stable. However i want that
> Centos running!
>
> Please give me some advice.
>
> CM
>
>
>
>
> lspci output:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
> 00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub Error Reporting
> Register (rev 0c)
> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port
> A0 (rev 0c)
> 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI
> Express Port A1 (rev 0c)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB 64-bit
> PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02)
> 00:1d.5 PIC:
> Intel Corp. 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev
> 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER
> Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev
> 02)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev
> 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> 04:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
> 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
>
> cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
> 3068288 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> md2 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
> 240605440 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
> 521984 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
> unused devices: <none>
>
> cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 1847902 1878624 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 795 727 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
> 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
> 12: 0 58 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> 14: 6204 11391 IO-APIC-edge libata
> 15: 1 47 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> 169: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd
> 201: 0 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd
> 209: 111408 88 IO-APIC-level eth0
> NMI: 0 0
> LOC: 3726666 3726522
> ERR: 0
> MIS: 0
>
> _______________________________________________
First, make sure you have the latest BIOS (firmware) for the motherboard
and add-on controllers.
If those are updated to the latest version, then try booting with this
in the kernel line for grub (you can put it at the end):
acpi=ht
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