SMP not booting from rh9 - nor fedora core 1

[Rick Stevens]

Colin Burgess wrote:
> Thanks - the noapic did it!
> 
> Thanks for you help!

Glad to help, Colin.  Onwards!

> 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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