SMP Kernel::Boot Failure-hang at "booting the kernel"

Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Wed Nov 19 12:18:12 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:42, Joseph M Bironas wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 00:17, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> > Good morning Joseph.
> > 
> > I have tried what you have suggested and this has solved my problem as
> > well. After installing the kernel for Redhat9, it all seems to be
> > working, with out any problems with the dual CPU.
> > 
> > If I can help people debug this, I will be more then happy (error logs,
> > system specification).
> > 
> > Doug
> 
> I don't know if this will help with the 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp kernel,
> but when I disabled APIC in BIOS, the kernel booted. From the kernel
> dmsg's it looks like the kernel re-enables APIC on it's own, it now
> boots with no issues.
> 
> Regards,
> Joseph
Yeah, I noticed that comment earlier, but I have not been able to find a
method to disable that within the bios as far as I can tell :(

Doug





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