Opteron / Tyan motherboard fault on boot.

[Dave Belfer-Shevett]

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 18:34, Hendricks David W. wrote:
> Is this on the S2880? The only patch you might need is for integrated ATi 
> VGA support on some mainboards. Other than that a current CVS tree should 
> do the trick. 

Nope, this is on an S2882...

Let me try to clarify what you're saying... the version we're running
(1.1.62.0) will not work properly, and we need a current version from
CVS to fix this problem?

No problem either way, I just want to be clear before I start down this
road :)

	-dbs

> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Dave Belfer-Shevett wrote:
> 
> > We're in the process of deploying Linuxbios to boot a cluster of Opteron
> > based blade servers.  I built a new kernel, put it in /tftpboot after
> > using:
> > 
> > mkelf-linux --rootdir=rom --ip=rom ./bzImage > vmlinuz.tyan
> > 
> > and cycled the blade.  Wen booting, I get:
> > 
> > Searching for server (DHCP)
> > Me: 192.168.1.200, Server: 192.168.1.200, Gateway 192.168.1.1
> > Loading 192.168.1.200:vmlinuz.tyan (ELF)... done
> > 
> > LinuxBIOS-1.1.62.0_Fallback [date date] starting...
> > Unknown Trwt
> > 
> > Looking at an old message to this list, there's this snippet:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxbios@clustermatic.org/msg03174.html
> > 
> > where the following line(s) are, in set_Trwt()...
> >         if ((clocks < DTH_TRWT_MIN) || (clocks > DTH_TRWT_MAX)) {
> >                 die("Unknown Trwt");
> >         }
> > 
> > What is this, and why is it happening?  Is there a patch needed for LinuxBIOS
> > to work properly on modern Opterons?
> > 
> > Thanks, I'm in dire straights here, any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > 	-dbs
> > 
> > 
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