I think this Athlon kernel disabled APIC for Uniprocessor machines to workaround Bug 62295 which prevented several mobile Atlon laptops from rebooting. Try recompiling the current Athlon UP kernel config with this option re-enabled. I don't know if this would help, but I think it may be related.
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 23:53, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: > Hello, > > I have a dual-Athlon MP system on an Asus motherboard (A7M266-D). Just > installed Red Hat on Friday, and set up a wireless network on Saturday. > One of those converted PCMCIA-to-PCI deals, unfortunately, so the > drivers are rather flaky, especially in SMP mode! > > So I have been resorting to using the UP kernel for most tasks. It was > not until today, though, that I cold-booted into the UP kernel. And > found that the boot process stops mysteriously after 'Configuring kernel > parameters' - the keyboard is responsive but that's about it. No > CTRL+ALT+DEL. My current workaround is to boot the SMP kernel first then > reboot into UP (without going into BIOS setup, otherwise it does not > work), but it's.. rather annoying. > > Posted as bug #75320: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75320 > > Anyone else experiencing this?
