Alright John...I'll go try it now...I'll post my results to the list!!!
:)
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:50:50 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [expert] SMP support
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is my first post to this list. I just got a dual 200 mhz HP
> Vectra XW
> > with 128 RAM. It only has a 1 gig HD now (all I had that would work
> with
> > it). Anyway, the processors are Intel Pentium Pro's. I installed
> Mandrake
> > 7.0, it installed the SMP kernel, but when I choose to boot with SMP
> > support, it never boots up. It boots fine using only 1 processor.
> >
> > Here is where it stops booting:
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on IRQ 15
> >
> > It hits that point in the boot, then freezes. It is possible that all
> of
> > the needed components didn't get installed because of the lack of hard
> > drive space?
> >
> Try this:
> at lilo type "linux-smp noapic" (assuming "linux-smp"
> is the image name for your SMP kernel) and I almost
> GUARANTEE it'll boot fine. The problem seems to be that you
> have a buggy "APIC" (not sure what that is other than it
> helps handing out IRQs in an SMP environment -- linux will
> run SMP w/o APIC, but it's not quite as efficient, from
> what I understand!) and linux is freaking out.
>
> I had a similar problem with a generic implementation of a
> dual-ppro Intel chipset. When I got the GENUINE Intel
> motherboard, it worked just fine w/o the "noapic" option.
> If that solves things for you, just add it to your
> /etc/lilo.conf and re-run /sbin/lilo to write the changes
> to the MBR.
> John
>
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