nosmp causes 'ata1: COMRESET failed' on vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 11/07/2007 10:13 AM, Todd Denniston wrote:
> Folks,
> While attempting to get xorg working[1] in vesa and fbdev mode with the
> CF52 I have, I tried using the nosmp boot option and received an
> unexpected result on boot.  Fortunately I don't require nosmp to get the
> system working, but I definitely was not expecting the nosmp option to
> cause a failure of the ata subsystem.
> 

Try maxcpus=1