Hang on boot up for Athlon MP SMP system
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Nov 26 02:03:48 UTC 2003
Tristan Fillmore wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:17, Athens Yan wrote:
>
>>when I try to boot Fedora with this SMP kernel, it hangs up as it
>>trying to activate the secondary processor. Does anyone have idea how
>>to shoot this problem? Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Saw this on the FAQ (http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/):
>
>
>>Dual Athlon systems require up to date BIOS versions or you may
>>see hangs. In addition most of them require a PS/2 mouse is
>>present to avoid random hangs when using IDE.
>
>
> Hope that's helpful,
The single largest cause of weirdo AMD things is the APIC. Use
"noapic" on the boot command and see if that helps.
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