can not boot with smp kernel

From: Pejman (pejman_at_orangenet.dk)
Date: 09/22/04


Date: 22 Sep 2004 06:46:24 -0700

Hello
I just install Linux redhat as 2.1 on a Dell 2400 PowerEdge.
I can boot with kernel version 2.4.9-e.3 but if I try to boot with
version 2.4.9
-e.3smp it frizzes just after "ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed....."
,

Can anybody tell me what is wrong ?
is it because I just have one CPU ?

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffe000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003fffe000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Scanning bios EBDA for MXT signature
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 262142
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 32766 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sda5
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 993.400 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1979.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 1026860k/1048568k available (1804k kernel code, 20304k
reserved, 95k data, 224k init, 131064k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PowerEdge 2400 series board detected. Selecting BIOS-method for
reboots.
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc7de, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 02 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router ServerWorks [1166/0200] at 00:0f.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
mxt_scan_bios: enter
Starting kswapd v1.8
bigpage subsystem: allocated 0 bigpages (=0MB).
allocated 64 pages and 64 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
aio_setup: num_physpages = 65535
aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 68
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: queued sectors max/low 681645kB/550573kB, 2048 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx



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