On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:47:18PM -0500, Adam Hough wrote: > I get this from dmesg running FC5 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5smp. The machine > seems to be stable (was crashing very frequently before this kernel in > FC). Also yes I know to boot with noapci as a kernel parameter to most > likely get rid of this error. I am still curious as to what it means. > > ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is > not present [20060707] > ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2 > ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is > not present [20060707] > ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3 ACPI is complaining because your BIOS is listing processors available in its tables that it can't find. > Also hyperthreading is disabled in the bios This is probably why. Some BIOS engineers aren't too bright. > as the machine refuses to > boot if it is enabled with this kernel and all previous FC5 kernels > panic on this machine. Please file a bz on the non-booting case. It really should work. Remove the 'quiet' option from the boot command line, and if possible hook up a serial console and capture as much as you can. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
