Re: 2.6.17 - weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS.

From: Mark Hounschell
Date: Fri Jan 12 2007 - 10:51:25 EST


Mark Hounschell wrote:
> I have a Tyan S4881 Thunder K8QW 4 processor (8 cores). Kernel 2.6.16.37 boots
> and runs fine.
> However kernel 2.6.17 and up doesn't. Here is my boot error msg.
>
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-smp root=/dev/sda5inux version 2.6.17-smp (root@badboy1)
> (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 12 07:53:35 EST 2007
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000093800 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000093800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000c2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cfea0000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000cfea0000 - 00000000cfea4000 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000cfea4000 - 00000000cff00000 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000cff00000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec00400 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000230000000 (usable)
> Warning only 4GB will be used.
> Use a PAE enabled kernel.
> 3200MB HIGHMEM available.
> 896MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000f71f0
> DMI present.
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x10] enabled)
> Processor #16 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x11] enabled)
> Processor #17 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x12] enabled)
> Processor #18 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x13] enabled)
> Processor #19 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x14] enabled)
> Processor #20 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x15] enabled)
> Processor #21 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x16] enabled)
> Processor #22 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x17] enabled)
> Processor #23 15:1 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x04] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x05] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x06] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x07] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x00] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 0, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xda200000] gsi_base[24])
> IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xda200000, GSI 24-27
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xda201000] gsi_base[28])
> IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xda201000, GSI 28-31
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
> Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 3 I/O APICs
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> Allocating PCI resources starting at d1000000 (gap: d0000000:10000000)
> Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 vga=normal resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent
> "console=ttyS0,19200"
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
> Detected 2411.454 MHz processor.
> Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 3366304k/4194304k available (1529k kernel code, 38968k reserved, 633k
> data, 184k init, 2488960k highmem)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4827.61 BogoMIPS (lpj=9655232)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> Capability LSM initialized
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
> CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
> CPU 0(2) -> Core 0
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
> ACPI Warning (nsload-0106): Zero-length AML block in table [SSDT] [20060127]
> CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) or Opteron(tm) CPU-model unknown stepping 02
> weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS.
>
> It then just reboots. Any ideas what I need to do for 2.6.17 and up kernels. I
> have tried all the
> way up to 2.6.20-rc4.
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>

Oh, I'm running in 32 bit mode on SuSE-10.2

Mark
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