APIC and Fedora 9 pre on AMD 64

[Jens Falsmar Oechsler]

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> ________________________________________
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Haley
> [aph at redhat.com] Sent: 06 May 2008 18:08 To: Development discussions
> related to Fedora Subject: APIC and Fedora 9 pre on AMD 64
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> Fedora 9pre i686 won't boot without noapic.
> 
> This is an ASUS M2N with AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
> 4800+. x86_64 kernel works without noapic; it's only the i686 that
> needs it.
> 
> So, does this sound familiar?  BIOS bug, perhaps?
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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My ASUS M2NPV had APIC troubles as well. A BIOS update solved the
booting problems for me.