Re: SMP not booting from rh9 - nor fedora core 1

[Colin Burgess <cburgess@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks - the noapic did it!

Thanks for you help!

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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