On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:05:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 00:59, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:02:23PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > The world jumped off the IBM PC cliff, so we're still dealing with some > > > of the design mistakes IBM made the first time around. > > > > And then people discovered they didn't have to jump off the retarded > > PC-BIOS cliff and started ignoring it for the most part. I think the > > only people who still have to deal with bios retardation are WinDOS folks. > > No, you're wrong. Unless you've got APIC running, if your Linux > box is x86, you're still carrying baggage from 1981. Namely, the > limited number of IRQs.
Which reminds me, that people may find this useful... Problem: APIC-enabled kernel on VIA chipset hangs very early in booting (2.4.20, 82C686) Solution: Disable APIC in BIOS... Instead of hanging, the kernel re-enables the APIC and proceeds merrily on its way. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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