On 3/20/06, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Even though things work fine now, any minor kernel rev can suddenly turn out > to be broken for your specific chipset combination, while other combinations > of Opteron chipsets and hardware work fine. Right now, for example, the > latest kernel I can boot on my dual-Opteron 240 box is 2.6.13. All later Based solely on my anedotal experience, have you tried disabling APIC in grub.conf (the "kernel" line would include the string "noapic"). Calvin