1341 smp (and all other recent smp) freezeup @ login prompt

[Jonathan Deitch]

Forgot to mention : this happens when booting to any runlevel, including 
single ...

Jonathan Deitch wrote:

> On a FC4T3 system, with latest yum updates ...
>
> Dual xeon system running on an Intel server motherboard, getting a 
> freeze after the boot process completes ... login appears, cursor 
> blinks, but keyboard/mouse are unresponsive, as well as network 
> (system appears hung) - can only reset to fix.
>
> Booting the UP kernel system works flawlessly ...
>
> Checking in logs, there's *no* logging at all for the smp boot - it's 
> as if it never happened.
>
> any ideas?  I'm flat-out stumped ...
>
> - Jonathan
>