trouble with K8T Master2-FAR (dual Opteron)

[Satoshi Sato]

Thank you Will,

From: "Will Saxon" <WillS at housing.ufl.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:59:54 -0500

> I have not tried 5.2-RELEASE but with 5.2RC2 on the same motherboard with dual Opteron 244's and the same memory configuration I had the same problem with ACPI causing a kernel panic when using the install CD. I was able to boot with ACPI disabled and then install the system without trouble. After than I was able to compile a new kernel with ACPI and that kernel booted correctly without panicking.

I just tried another kernel without ACPI.

Kernel panic after memory status didn't occur.
But other one occur.

Now I think, this is not amd64 problem. May be. I'll try i386 CD.

> What BIOS revision do you have? Maybe we have different ones. What type of hard drive are you installing to? I am using a Western Digital Raptor connected to the onboard serial ATA, and was installing from CDROM.

I'm using Rev. 1.1 BIOS.
I got it from MSI Taiwan.
  http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=484

If yours is 1.0, I'll try it.

And my hard drive is Seagate ST3120022A(IDE 120GB).


> The problem I have had is that the bge driver does not initialize the onboard bcm5705 controller. Since I have some other buggy hardware, I am now using a linux distribution for the time being. I noticed that their tg3 driver also does not initialize the controller correctly, while the (vendor supplied?) bcm5700 driver works fine.

In my case, I can use network via bge...

Sincerely

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Satoshi Sato
<satoshi at din.or.jp>