[ale] SMP problems with Tyan Tiger MB

[James P. Kinney III]

You have an incompatible mix of "steppings" with the PIII's. If the
system run OK with either cpu in single use, then the cpu's are both
good. If the system pukes in dual cpu mode with an smb kernel but not
with a non-smb kernel, you have the mismatch issue with the cpu's. The
PIII series up until the server class (1.1GHz+ w/512k L2) had to have
identical stepping rates.

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 11:13 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I'm having problems installing and running Linux (SuSE-9.3 and Fedora-C3) 
> on a salvage system based on a Tyan Tiger-100 MB and two PIII processors.
> 
> The effects are lockups (FC3 pre-installation at the 'testing halt' line),
> disk discovery (several tries to start SuSE installation, then disk acess 
> failures when running, especially when warm).
> 
> Installation goes fine if I pull one processor.
> 
> BIOS is not latest - 1.x.18 vs. 1.x.20 now available.
> 
> Disk diagnostics all run fine from CD, hot or cold.
> 
> Any ideas to make this work on my motherboard? Jumpers? Settings? Magic? 
> Curses?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - Mills
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part