Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > how to get 2 CPUs and a CD-ROM drive at the same time, now that's > > the question. > Did you try adding "noapic" to the boot command? That fixes a lot of > weirdness on SMP mobos--especially AMD ones. that did it. thanks, richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security