On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:45 +0200, CM wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm looking for some insights on reproductible lockups with this server > so please bear the long description that follows: > > Installed the 4.0 Centos than yum updated it so it results a 4.2 Centos > fully updated. During the instalation and update there were no cold > boots. That's important because if (updated Centos or not) you cold boot > the server it stucks at the "configuring hardware ... storage" step. It > does not matter the kernel version but if i choose the SMP kernels it > freezes just a little later on "configuring hardware ... audio" step.It > freezes at the same spot without kernel panicking. > I altered the rc.sysinit file so that at the configuring hardware step > it does not load any modules. It passes (forcefully) the configuring > hardware step but it freezes at the next "Configuring kernel parameters" > step. There are no errors in the log as the k(logd) is not started at > that point. > > For a change, i installed a FC2 and it's stable. However i want that > Centos running! > > Please give me some advice. > > CM > > > > > lspci output: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) > 00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub Error Reporting > Register (rev 0c) > 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port > A0 (rev 0c) > 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI > Express Port A1 (rev 0c) > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB 64-bit > PCI-X Bridge (rev 02) > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host > Controller (rev 02) > 00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02) > 00:1d.5 PIC: > Intel Corp. 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev > 02) > 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host > Controller (rev 02) > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER > Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 0a) > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev > 02) > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev > 02) > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02) > 04:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) > 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705 > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) > > cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] > 3068288 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md2 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] > 240605440 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] > 521984 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > unused devices: <none> > > cat /proc/interrupts > CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 1847902 1878624 IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 795 727 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade > 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc > 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi > 12: 0 58 IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 14: 6204 11391 IO-APIC-edge libata > 15: 1 47 IO-APIC-edge ide1 > 169: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd > 201: 0 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd > 209: 111408 88 IO-APIC-level eth0 > NMI: 0 0 > LOC: 3726666 3726522 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 > > _______________________________________________ First, make sure you have the latest BIOS (firmware) for the motherboard and add-on controllers. If those are updated to the latest version, then try booting with this in the kernel line for grub (you can put it at the end): acpi=ht -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060118/a79b8471/attachment-0004.sig>