Ubuntu-server Installation freezes on AMD Dual Proc server
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Ubuntu-server Installation freezes on AMD Dual Proc server
I've been seeing a freeze at the exact same point in the installation when trying to install on a Penguin Computing box containing dual AMD Opteron 248s with 4GB ram and the Northbridge chipset.
The freeze occurs right after "io scheduler cfg registered" and right before what I believe should be the ramdisk/kernel load. I have tried almost every bios setting and boot option that can be imagined (apic, nolapic, apci, so on and so on). Several people have suggested solutions, however none have worked. So far people have blamed the bios, kernel, and memory manager with consistency but nothing that has been suggested has any effect. I did also use the debug options in the boot line however the output was useless and ended at the exact same point (io scheduler cfg registered).
NOTE: there is no CD drive in this box so we are using the on board USB connection to connect a drive to. I have no idea if that effects anything but I do know that every other distro we try (Gentoo, Knoppix, etc.) all boot from that drive and the liveCDs work as well.
Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide (send mail to ubuntu @ whurley.com)
| Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in linux-source-2.6.15: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in linux-source-2.6.15: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.