Hi Perret and Martin,


We installed SL3.02 on Nocona systems (Supermicro MB).
When the BIOS options were default, it worked fine.  But when
we tried changing some options (turn of power saving, etc...)
it would reboot as you described.  So if you changed the BIOS
settings, this is a possibility.  We also have to use
the non-smp kernel, otherwise same problem.

On these machines, we have upgraded to 3.03, no problems.



Eric

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Perret Yannick wrote:

> Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>(...)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Ok, thank. I will have a look to the current release of our BIOS to see
> >>if I can
> >>update that. I will also add this kernel option into the %post script in
> >>order
> >>to see if it solve the problem.
> >>By the way we never met that problem with our opterons :o)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yannick,
> >
> >I think it is a board-specific problem - the motherboard I have is an early
> >one and my guess is the bios writers didn't have enough experience of
> >linux/64bit when they wrote the bios.  Now they know...  I guess it could be
> >a commom fault for a particular brad of bios.
> >
> >
> I will check the BIOS soon.
> By the way I changed the grub.conf so that it uses the 'idle=poll'. The
> newly installed
> machine behave now in a different way:
> after GRUB, the kernel starts to boot... and the machine reboots.
> It seems that this option is not the good one for me :o)
>
> I will check with the BIOS update (if any).
>
> Regards,
> --
> Yannick
>
>
> >Martin.
> >
> >
> >
>