On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Eric Wu wrote:

> 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.
>

I think RedHat added code to make ia32e work better in the 2.4.21-20
kernel which is the one included in 3.0.3 .

-Connie Sieh

>
>
> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>