SMP not booting from rh9 - nor fedora core 1

[Colin Burgess]

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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