AMD64: crash on boot with smp kernel (on Linux certified system)
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at canonical.com
Fri Oct 15 12:25:47 CDT 2004
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Friedrich Schiller wrote:
> I would like to run the AMD64 version of Ubuntu
> "Warty" on a Linux
> certified Dual Opteron system with 8GB RAM.
> Installation of Ubuntu and
> updating all packages via apt worked perfectly. The
> single processor kernel
> (amd64-generic) also works just fine and does
> recognize the complete RAM.
>
> However, the SMP version of the kernel (amd64-k8-smp)
> crashes right
> after "booting linux" with a nasty kernel panic error
> message, followed by a complete
> console freeze. Unfortunately, the crash happens so
> early that there are no messages
> to be found in /var/log/*
We'll need a copy of the panic error in order to fix the problem. If it
fits on the screen, perhaps you can take a digital photo? The ideal
solution is to connect a serial cable to the machine, and boot with
a serial console enabled.
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- mdz
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