HDAMA+FILO booting SUSE Linux

[Craig C Forney]

I have been trying to boot Suse 9.0 Pro AMD64 distribution DVD, not
i386.

The nomce boot argument allowed me to boot up up the Suse 9.1 Live CD
(at least into single user mode), and get much further with other
distributions.  I'll report back on that in a later email.  

Thanks, Stefan and YH!!

Regards,

Craig Forney
Opus Innovations LLC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: YhLu [mailto:YhLu at tyan.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:34 AM
> To: Stefan Reinauer; Craig C Forney
> Cc: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> Subject: 答复: HDAMA+FILO booting SUSE Linux
> 
> 
> Are you using Suse 9 pro for AMD64 or for i386?
> 
> I guess you are using for i386. 
> 
> YH
> 
> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan at openbios.org] 
> 发送时间: 2004年5月13日 1:43
> 收件人: Craig C Forney
> 抄送: YhLu; linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> 主题: Re: HDAMA+FILO booting SUSE Linux
> 
> * Craig C Forney <cforney at opus.com> [040513 09:54]:
> > LinuxBIOS to boot properly.  I had to make a few changes to the 
> > /etc/rc files (remove the keyboard startup), and I was able 
> to get it 
> > to boot up completely into init state 3.
>  
> This stuff should probably be fixed in LinuxBIOS. 
> 
> > So, I'm still struggling with trying to load off of the Suse 9.0 
> > Distribution DVD.  I'd really like to be able to load a complete 
> > system from scratch using the serial port.  It seems awfully close 
> > (the repair worked fine ... even the update sems to work).
> 
> Hm. I was successful installing SUSE 9 on an AMD64 system 
> (Solo) using filo and I described some stuff here:
>    http://www.openbios.org/linuxbioswiki/Filo_2bAMD64
> 
> One thing that might be worth trying is to disable the nmi 
> watchdog and machine check exceptions via linux kernel boot 
> parameters, ie with
>      nmi_watchdog=0 nomce 
> and probably 
>      acpi=off
> 
> > > 		Not respondin<4>NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0,
> [..]
> > > 		CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004
> > > 		Bank 4: b200000000070f0f
> > > 		Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
> 
>    Stefan
> 
> 
>