On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 03:52, Dave Jones wrote: > > I'm not sure. I know that I'm getting two processors to boot now. Top > > reports both processors, and I get two little penguins on FB boot > > -always an important indicator. > > I think this could be the CONFIG_NR_CPUS patch that's causing this. > It makes the assumption that APICs are contiguously numbered, > so if you have them sparsely numbered, you could end up with some > of them being unused. > > This would explain several similar bugs in bugzilla too. > For those that want to test, setting this option to 32 should > restore to the previous behaviour. I hate to disappoint, but I still have the same behavior. Recompiled the 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp source with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32 and nothing changed. BIOS ACPI "On" = no boot, hang at "Ok, booting the kernel..." BIOS ACPI "Off" = everything boots as normal, two CPU's working fine. Regards, Joseph
