[gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.

[gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.

[Andrew MacKenzie]

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I've got an old PII Intergraph TD-225 PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo
onto.  Bios is AMIBIOS.  The system supports dual CPU but only has one.

It currently has WinXP running on it fine.  But every Linux install/boot CD
I've run (Gentoo, CentOS, Knoppix, etc.) hangs while booting (2.4 and 2.6
kernels).

The last thing I see from the CentOS boot process is the following:

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed
CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03


Then it just hangs.  CD can pop out and everything.  Can anyone give me any
idea what's going wrong?

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Re: [gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.

[Dale]

Andrew MacKenzie wrote:
> I've got an old PII Intergraph TD-225 PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo
> onto.  Bios is AMIBIOS.  The system supports dual CPU but only has one.
>
> It currently has WinXP running on it fine.  But every Linux install/boot CD
> I've run (Gentoo, CentOS, Knoppix, etc.) hangs while booting (2.4 and 2.6
> kernels).
>
> The last thing I see from the CentOS boot process is the following:
>
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
> Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed
> CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03
>
>
> Then it just hangs.  CD can pop out and everything.  Can anyone give me any
> idea what's going wrong?
>
>   

I looked at my dmesg and ACPI seems to come after that on mine.  May 
want to try to disable that until some one else has other ideas.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.

[Florian Philipp]

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On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:21 -0400, Andrew MacKenzie wrote:
> I've got an old PII Intergraph TD-225 PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo
> onto.  Bios is AMIBIOS.  The system supports dual CPU but only has one.
> 
> It currently has WinXP running on it fine.  But every Linux install/boot CD
> I've run (Gentoo, CentOS, Knoppix, etc.) hangs while booting (2.4 and 2.6
> kernels).
> 
> The last thing I see from the CentOS boot process is the following:
> 
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
> Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed
> CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03
> 
> 
> Then it just hangs.  CD can pop out and everything.  Can anyone give me any
> idea what's going wrong?
> 

Typically, adding the boot parameter noapic (not noapci!) is the first
thing one should try.

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Re: [gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.

[Andrew MacKenzie]

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+++ Florian Philipp [gentoo-user] [Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:00:20PM +0100]:
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:21 -0400, Andrew MacKenzie wrote:
> > Then it just hangs.  CD can pop out and everything.  Can anyone give me any
> > idea what's going wrong?
> Typically, adding the boot parameter noapic (not noapci!) is the first
> thing one should try.

Good suggestions.  I tried a few different parameters and it seems "nosmp"
gets it booting.  I think Linux is getting a little confused with the
'missing' CPU?  Either way it seems to work now.

Thanks!

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