Hi Yannick,

we have no Noconas yet (and I hope we'll have more Opterons than those,
although they'll be hard to avoid), but 3.0.3/x86_64 works fine on my P4
(Prescott) with 925X chipset (a Dell precision 370).

The only quirk is that there's no right kernel-module-openafs for the
ia32e kernel package (which is SMP, despite the fact that RH dropped
the "-smp" from the name). Repackaging the one from
kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-20.ELsmp-1.2.11-15.9.SL.x86_64
into a kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-20.EL-1.2.11-15.9.SL.ia32e
works well.

What exactly is your hardware? And have you tried 3.0.3 as well, or
just 3.0.2 ?

Cheers,
        Stephan

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Perret Yannick wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we've got some new machines, which are Intel Xeon "Nocona".
>
> These processors are supposed to be similar to the Opteron ones,
> with the support for 64 and 32 bits instructions.
> By the way, the /proc/cpuinfo for these machines (installed with
> SL in 3.02) gives
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm lm
> The last one is for "long mode" with is supposed to be be the
> 32+64 bits mode.
>
> I manage to install both a SL 3.02 and a SL 3.03 in 32 bits for
> these machines, but the 64 bits install failed.
> I use the x86_64 scheme for that, all all is fine (PXE boot
> on the x86_64 boot kernel, anaconda installation...) until the
> machine reboots.
> At this point the kernel starts to load and crashes after a
> 'kernel panic'. The only message I can see is a dump of the
> execution stack...
>
> Does someone met the same problem ? Is it the good arch
> to use (x86_64) ?
> It is not really important as they are used in 32 bits at this
> time, but I don't like that :o)
>
> Thank.
>
> --
> Yannick Perret
>

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