Hang on boot up for Athlon MP SMP system

[Tristan Fillmore]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:17, Athens Yan wrote:
> when I try to boot Fedora with this SMP kernel, it hangs up as it
> trying to activate the secondary processor. Does anyone have idea how
> to shoot this problem? Thanks in advance.

Saw this on the FAQ (http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/):

> Dual Athlon systems require up to date BIOS versions or you may
> see hangs. In addition most of them require a PS/2 mouse is
> present to avoid random hangs when using IDE.

Hope that's helpful,


Tristan