Hello,
I just got a SMP system and are having big problems. I don’t
think its RTP’s fault as I also have problems running a Linux
SMP kernel. Running single processor kernels seems to work ok
both for RTP and Linux. I would appreciate some hints what could
be wrong as I have no previous experience with SMP. I’m gessing
however that the mainboard is faulty or wrongly set up.
The system is:
Mainboard: Soltek Dual Intel 440 BX Slot-1 (SL-68A)
Processors: 2x P-III 750 MHz, 100 MHz bus (ABIT adapter to Slot-1)
Memory: 128 M, PC-100
HD: Seagate 20 G
Gfx: Creative, GeForce 2 MX, 32 M
Net: 3COM 905C-TX
Sound: Sound Blaster PCI 128
When I boot RTP it detects both processors correctly, but after
detecting the EIDE devices I get:
[4102] fs-pkg built: Sep 7 2000 16:00:23
FS-PKG: Open configuration [/etc/system/package/packages]
io-blk: Unable to perform sync IO
io-blk: Unable to perform sync IO
Warning: Can’t find package [qnx/os/drivers2.1/MANIFEST]
io-blk: Unable to perform sync IO
etc…
Until FS-PKG gives up and the system freezes.
In the Linux boot-messages there is a small waring telling
someting like: “Preset values are inconsistetnt”. “The processor
many not have been configured by the BIOS”. Linux boots however,
but after e.g. uncompressing a big source archive I get lots of
kernel errors and even crc errors from the uncompress utility.
After this the filesystem contains errors like random links
and wrong parameters in inodes.
Any hints appreciated.
Mats