[TriLUG] RedHat 7.3 on Tyan S2460?

[Ed Hill]

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 14:39, Al Koscielny wrote:
> I'm trying to install Linux on my new smp box, running a Tyan S2460 with 2 
> 1.3 GHz AMD MP processors.  Redhat 7.3 installs and dies in the postinstall 


At the time, were you running any disk-intensive work with the SMP
kernel? 


> Is anybody successfully using a S2460 motherboard?


I don't have an S2460 but we do have a few SMP machines in our lab.  If
you want to run RH 7.3 on any SMP system, then make sure to get the most
recent Red Hat 7.3 kernel version from the updates!  Theres a race
condition in the ext3 code in the stock RH 7.3 kernel and it can cause
frequent lockups on SMP systems when doing heavy disk access (ie. when
running updatedb).

hth,
Ed

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