Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try to give as much information as possible.
---------- HARDWARE ---------- MB: Supermicro PDSBM-LN2+ Intel 946GZ ICH7R + Intel® 82573
Memory: Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.
Processors: Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bit Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bit
Hard Disks: Various Western Digital and Seagate SATA Drives ----------
---------- BIOS (Rev 1.0 as well as Rev 1.0a) ---------- Disabled Native Mode Disabled Native Mode with ACPI Enabled SATA Native Mode
---------- KERNEL PARAMS (singularly and combination) ---------- acpi=off, pci=nommconf, pci=bios, nohz=off, noapic, nolapic, pci=routeirq, maxcpus=1 ----------
ATA_PIIX loads at startup, sometimes ACPI depending on my BIOS settings. Always after verifying dependencies, and typically during the disk format process, the installation freezes. I get a "kernel panic - not syncing" in text mode. Single disks, dual disks, LVM, no-LVM, software RAID, even when disks are on a Promise SATA300-TX4. The single-core Celeron processors work fine, but none of the dual core processors work. I'm using 5 sets of hardware, so bad hardware is unlikely. I'm stumped.
Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas?
-Ken
Ken Price wrote:
Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas?
install using a serial console, and capture the entire kernel panic from the console if you can. Have you tried any disk controllers other than the promise ?
For me, if hardware SATA raid, it's 3Ware or nothing. I haven't ever really noticed good things said about other SATA raid cards.
nate
Ken Price wrote:
Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas?
install using a serial console, and capture the entire kernel panic from the console if you can. Have you tried any disk controllers other than the promise ?
For me, if hardware SATA raid, it's 3Ware or nothing. I haven't ever really noticed good things said about other SATA raid cards.
This is using the onboard SATA, or the promise SATA controller (not a RAID controller). Yeah, I've had problems capturing the entire panic. I'll try via a terminal on monday morning.
I agree with the 3ware comment. My high-end MySQL and NFS boxes have 8-port 3Ware SATA RAID.
Ken Price wrote:
Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try to give as much information as possible. ... Supermicro PDSBM-LN2+ Intel 946GZ
Intel says the 'value-oriented' 946PL/GZ chipsets are 800/666Mhz FSB only, no support for 1066Mhz FSB. See http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/946PL_946GZ/index.htm
Oddly, Supermicro claims they do support 1066.
ICH7R + Intel® 82573
Memory: Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.
according to Intel, this chipset supports DDR2 667Mhz memory only. if you're using two dimms they should be matched pairs for dual channel operation?
Processors: Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bit
this is a 1066Mhz FSB CPU, not compatible with that chipset at least according to Intel.
actually, reading the Intel datasheet, it looks like the 946 chipsets were intended strictly as P4 chipsets, and Core2Duo support was an afterthought.
I'd check with SuperMicro for more help on this.
Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bit
this is a 800Mhz FSB CPU, it /should/ work.
ICH7R + Intel® 82573
Memory: Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.
according to Intel, this chipset supports DDR2 667Mhz memory only. if you're using two dimms they should be matched pairs for dual channel operation?
Yes. I'm using matched pairs of DDR2 667Mhz. Hmmm. Actually, the Celeron's are using DDR2 533Mhz ... according to Crucial these work in this MB. Guess that's one more thing to try with the dual core processors.
Processors: Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bit
this is a 1066Mhz FSB CPU, not compatible with that chipset at least according to Intel.
actually, reading the Intel datasheet, it looks like the 946 chipsets were intended strictly as P4 chipsets, and Core2Duo support was an afterthought.
I'd check with SuperMicro for more help on this.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/946/PDSBM-LN2+.cfm
Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bit
this is a 800Mhz FSB CPU, it /should/ work.
Yes, but unfortunately has the exact same issues as the 1066Mhz Core2Duo's.
Ken Price wrote:
ICH7R + Intel® 82573
Memory: Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.
according to Intel, this chipset supports DDR2 667Mhz memory only. if you're using two dimms they should be matched pairs for dual channel operation?
Yes. I'm using matched pairs of DDR2 667Mhz. Hmmm. Actually, the Celeron's are using DDR2 533Mhz ... according to Crucial these work in this MB. Guess that's one more thing to try with the dual core processors.
you might just try running the 667Mhz ram at 533Mhz if there's jumpers or a bios setting. if this works, and htere are fine tuning settings for the ram, you might try the original 667 speed only add a clock to the CAS precharge (again, ift he BIOS has advanced manual memory timing options, some boards do, some don't)
btw, have you tried running memtest86 on these systems ?
One more note, which explains why I posted on the CentOS list: I have no problems installing Fedora 8, or Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 on these boxes. I haven't tried CentOS4.6, but that's not an option. I need CentOS 5.X.
I've been using CentOS from the beginning of the project. I won't consider another distro in production systems.
-Ken
----- Message from kprice@nowyouknow.net --------- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:56:58 -0500 From: Ken Price kprice@nowyouknow.net Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 Core 2 Duo Install freezes To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try to give as much information as possible.
HARDWARE
MB: Supermicro PDSBM-LN2+ Intel 946GZ ICH7R + Intel® 82573
Memory: Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.
Processors: Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bit Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bit
Hard Disks: Various Western Digital and Seagate SATA Drives
BIOS (Rev 1.0 as well as Rev 1.0a)
Disabled Native Mode Disabled Native Mode with ACPI Enabled SATA Native Mode
KERNEL PARAMS (singularly and combination)
acpi=off, pci=nommconf, pci=bios, nohz=off, noapic, nolapic, pci=routeirq, maxcpus=1
ATA_PIIX loads at startup, sometimes ACPI depending on my BIOS settings. Always after verifying dependencies, and typically during the disk format process, the installation freezes. I get a "kernel panic - not syncing" in text mode. Single disks, dual disks, LVM, no-LVM, software RAID, even when disks are on a Promise SATA300-TX4. The single-core Celeron processors work fine, but none of the dual core processors work. I'm using 5 sets of hardware, so bad hardware is unlikely. I'm stumped.
Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas?
-Ken
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