On Saturday 24 December 2005 19:23, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > Hi... > > Every non-SMP kernel that I have tried has worked just fine. Every > SMP kernel that I have tried has exhibited the exact same behavior - > the boot freezes as I described. I've also tried two different > Pentium-D chips - one 2.0 Ghz, and one 2.4 Ghz, and I still get the > same problem. > > I'm stumped... > > Jamie Hmmm... you sure those are pentium-D ? The lowest pentium D that's sold is the D820 which runs at 2.8Ghz... Do you maybe have a Pentium 4 with HyperThreading technology? Peter.