In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Dear Kernel People, > A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard > and dual 1GHZ PIII's. We have installed RedHat 7.1. The original > RedHat SMP kernel (2.4.2) did not boot; it froze with some complaints > about APIC. The backup single processor kernel 2.4.2 booted o.k., > however. The upgraded kernel from RedHat (2.4.3) also refused to boot > properly - the boot up will start and the screen will then go blank > before I can discern any informative messages. I also downloaded the > latest 2.4.6 kernel which had the identical problem, and then I also > applied the latest Alan-Cox patch for 2.4.6 which did not solve the > problem. The 2.4.6 kernel will boot when only a single processor > is used, however. For several people the following works: 1) Upgrade to the latest bios 2) Change the "MPS" level in the bios. It can have 3 values "1.4" "1.1" and "none". the default one doesn't work, one of the others does (but I forgot which one) Greetings, Arjan van de Ven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
