"IO APIC RESOURCES could not be loaded" boot delay...

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sat Sep 12 18:22:23 UTC 2009


On 09/12/2009 01:50 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Just for testing, I´ve attempted booting a Feodra 11 XFCE liveCD (respin)
> on a Gateway Connected Touchpad (GCTP) internet appliance which has
> 256MB RAM and a Transmeta Crusoe 400 Mhz CPU.
> For the record, it´s the i386 build.
>
> The problem I see is that on every boot, it displays "IO APIC
> RESOURCES could not be loaded". Not surprising since all of the
> (early) Transmeta Crusoe systems I´ve seen do NOT support APIC in the
> Bios.
>
> So the system displays that message, and STAYS IDLE, for about 40
> seconds (maybe a minute) until eventually booting continues.
>
> The questions are obvious:
>
> #1) WTF is it doing while "doing nothing" and "thinking..."
> #2) If the system detects APIC is not supported, why can´t it resume
> booting INMEDIATELY, rather than "staying in the dark" for 40 secs to
> a minute ??
>
> Just wondering...
> FC
>
>    
pass this to the kernel at start of boot  "nomodeset" w/o quotes.




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