noapic strikes back
I have a SGI 1200 (L440GX+ motherboard, dual PIII) and i'm trying to install at least one version of Red Hat 7.1 on it.
The problem is, while booting up the installer, when it comes to loading up the SCSI driver (AIC7xxx) the system is frozen.
I tried the following boot disks:
- stock Red Hat 7.1
- Doug Ledford's updates from people.redhat.com
- SGI XFS 1.0.1
I tried to boot the installer with and without "noapic" option.
I tried to enable and disable the APIC option in BIOS ("PCI IRQs to IO-APIC Mapping").
I tried all the combinations of these. No luck. :-(
Please, is there anything to do about this problem? I *have* to install something newer than RH7.0 on that system.
Guys, i will try whatever boot disks you will send to me. I'm willing to be you guinea pig. :-) Just let's kill the APIC problem for good!
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Florin Andrei
Quoted 6 lines · Florin Andrei
I have a SGI 1200 (L440GX+ motherboard, dual PIII) and i'm trying to install at least one version of Red Hat 7.1 on it.
The problem is, while booting up the installer, when it comes to loading up the SCSI driver (AIC7xxx) the system is frozen.
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I tried the following boot disks:
- stock Red Hat 7.1
- Doug Ledford's updates from people.redhat.com
- SGI XFS 1.0.1I tried to boot the installer with and without "noapic" option.
When using my boot disk, you have to use the "apic" option, not the "noapic" option.
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Doug Ledford <[email protected]> http://people.redhat.com/dledford Please check my web site for aic7xxx updates/answers before e-mailing me about problems
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Quoted 2 lines · Florin Andrei
I tried to boot the installer with and without "noapic" option.
When using my boot disk, you have to use the "apic" option, not the "noapic" option.
Oh, crap... :-(
Yes, "apic" is the right one. It works fine. Thank you.
Now if i only could do the same thing to the SGI XFS 1.0.1 installer...
P.S.: Doug, please, can you put a small README in the updates directory, so people can know what option to use? I saw that URL floating around for a while, so maybe some people (like me) will be confused when trying to use your updated images. Thanks.
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Florin Andrei
Quoted 2 lines · On 18 Jul 2001 12:35:08 -0700 Florin Andrei <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a SGI 1200 (L440GX+ motherboard, dual PIII) and i'm trying to install at least one version of Red Hat 7.1 on it.
This is a known issue. Check RedHat's Bugzilla to find out more.
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Jure Pecar
Hi there!
I too have that problem on Intel ISP2150 servers (L440GX+ motherboard is the problem, of course) and I've seen even quite amazing things - there are boot disks that work (you don't see the message complaining about shared IRQ 11, whatever) but the kernel that is put on disk from the installation rpm is not coherent with the one made for the disk (apic'ed or not apic'ed), so I actually could install from the first redhat 7.1 xfs iso (xfs 1.0) and get that problem only upon the first boot from disk - systems hangs forever.
With the problem of fitting a kernel image (with xfs and softraid gets too big) onto a disk, I could only solve this, compiling my own and putting it on a network tftp server and booting with PXE (intel servers -> intel NIC -> Fancy Network Boot); I suppose emulating a 2.88 disk and making a bootable CD would also do (if you have a CD-ROM).
Cheers,
Daniel Fonseca
Quoted 25 lines · On 18-Jul-2001 Florin Andrei wrote:
I have a SGI 1200 (L440GX+ motherboard, dual PIII) and i'm trying to install at least one version of Red Hat 7.1 on it.
The problem is, while booting up the installer, when it comes to loading up the SCSI driver (AIC7xxx) the system is frozen.I tried the following boot disks:
- stock Red Hat 7.1
- Doug Ledford's updates from people.redhat.com
- SGI XFS 1.0.1I tried to boot the installer with and without "noapic" option.
I tried to enable and disable the APIC option in BIOS ("PCI IRQs to IO-APIC Mapping").
I tried all the combinations of these. No luck. :-(
Please, is there anything to do about this problem? I *have* to install something newer than RH7.0 on that system.
Guys, i will try whatever boot disks you will send to me. I'm willing to be you guinea pig. :-) Just let's kill the APIC problem for good!
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Florin Andrei
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Quoted 8 lines · Florin Andrei
Oh, crap... :-(
Yes, "apic" is the right one. It works fine. Thank you.
Now if i only could do the same thing to the SGI XFS 1.0.1 installer...
P.S.: Doug, please, can you put a small README in the updates directory, so people can know what option to use? I saw that URL floating around for a while, so maybe some people (like me) will be confused when trying to use your updated images. Thanks.
I've put it into my local web area. It will get disted up to the server before too much longer.
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Doug Ledford <[email protected]> http://people.redhat.com/dledford Please check my web site for aic7xxx updates/answers before e-mailing me about problems