During installation of SuSE 9.3 (64-bit) on the Marquis K814 or M814 configured with the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor, the kernel panics.
Problem:
During installation of SuSE 9.3 (64-bit) on the Marquis K814 or M814 configured with the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor, the kernel panics.
Details:
During the initial phase of installation, SuSE 9.3 uses a uniprocessor kernel. After the initial reboot, the system then boots the SMP kernel. The operating system then panics and crashes. This appears to be a bug in the SMP kernel shipped with SuSE 9.3 (2.6.11.4-20a).
Platforms Effected:
- Marquis K814
- Marquis M814
Solution:
This problem can be worked around by avoiding the SMP kernel during the installation process.
From the Installation Settings screen:
- Installation Software->Detailed Selection
- Filter->Search
- Type in the word 'kernel'
- Set the kernel-smp and kernel-smp-nongpl packages to 'Taboo'
- Select kernel-default and kernel-default-nongpl to be installed
After the system has booted, run yast to install the smp kernel:
- Install And Remove Software->Filter->Search
- Type in the word 'kernel'
- Select kernel-smp and kernel-smp-nongpl to be installed
Afterward, perform an online update to download a newer kernel before rebooting the system. As of this writing, 2.6.11.4-21.8 and 2.6.11.4-21.9 kernels have been verified for dual core support.