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, Tristan