On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:20:44PM -0800, Joseph M Bironas wrote: > To anyone who's interested. My problem apparently stems from faulty APIC > handling. I don't want to blame the Linux kernel or the Dell Precision, > but I'd weigh my complaints more at the Dell than the coders who are > working on it. Anyway, all I had to do to get the workstation to boot > with the SMP kernel was turn off APIC in the BIOS. So simple I wish I'd > thought of it earlier. Still it seems there should be a software > workaround for the faulty BIOS implementation. Disabling APIC precludes SMP support though. (Or is the kernel re-enabling it on boot?). We definitly regressed somewhere, but the problem is pinning down where, and why. Dave
