System clock running at double time - D955XBK MB with Intel Pent. D 830 CPU

[Billy Tallis]

On 1/19/06, David J. Vernon <redhat at ladadee.com> wrote:
> My system with a D955XBK motherboard and a Pentium D 830 CPU is leaping
> ahead into the future. The system clock is gaining about a min. for
> every min. or real time. I saw a post from Nov. that said to add noapic
> to the grub kernel line. I did that but then the system will not get
> past the hardware part of the udev initialization. I would really
> appreciate any links or guidance anyone could give.
>
> Dave

I think that the apic is required for any x86 SMP system, including
your dual core processor.
Try adding clock=pmtmr to your kernel command line if you still want
to use your second core.