On 1/19/06, David J. Vernon <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My system with a D955XBK motherboard and a Pentium D 830 CPU is leaping > ahead into the future. The system clock is gaining about a min. for > every min. or real time. I saw a post from Nov. that said to add noapic > to the grub kernel line. I did that but then the system will not get > past the hardware part of the udev initialization. I would really > appreciate any links or guidance anyone could give. > > Dave I think that the apic is required for any x86 SMP system, including your dual core processor. Try adding clock=pmtmr to your kernel command line if you still want to use your second core.