SMP not booting from rh9 - nor fedora core 1

[Colin Burgess]

Thanks - the noapic did it!

Thanks for you help!

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Colin Burgess wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, still no joy.  The grub args were
>>
>> kernel /vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb acpi=off
> 
> 
> Try:
> 
> kernel /vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb noapic
>                                                            ^^^^^^
> APIC and ACPI are not the same thing.  You want to disable the APIC,
> not ACPI (which controls power management), although you may still need
> to disable ACPI (some BIOSes are weird), in which case the end of your
> line is:
> 
>     noapic acpi=off
> 
> 
>>
>> and it still hung in the same place.  The last line looked like...
>>
>> CPU0<T0:....,T1:...,D:14,S:.....,C:....>
>>
>> and then nothing.
>>
>>
>> Samuel Flory wrote:
>>
>>> Colin Burgess wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>   Try adding acpi=off to your kernel command line.
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> 

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