SMP not booting from rh9 - nor fedora core 1
Colin Burgess
cburgess at qnx.com
Mon Mar 8 17:59:18 UTC 2004
Thanks Rotariu,
I tried disabling the video shadow, but still no go. :v(
Mostly it hangs right after having said something about configuring
the APIC timer.
Rotariu Bogdan wrote:
> Hello Colin,
>
> I had a problem with a 2.4 SMP kernel on fedora.
> The problem looked like yours, and i fixed playing @ bios.
> try to disable in bios the videocard "memory shadow" ram memory shadow
> and things like this.
> That fixed my lnx :)
>
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 16:29, Colin Burgess wrote:
>
>>I can't get SMP up on a dual PIII Coppermine system. It gets only as
>>far as the first boot messages before hanging. Sometimes it gets
>>further than others.
>>
>>I tried updating to the latest 2.4 SMP kernel via up2date but no help.
>>
>>I also tried removing the usb controller from the /etc/modules.conf,
>>since that was mentioned in bugzilla.
>>
>>I'm a linux newbie, so if someone could point out any gotchas that I'm
>>missing I'd appreciate it.
>>
>>The system has 512Mb of ram, and a ATI Rage 128 Pro video card.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Colin
>
> (no problem :D)
>
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