On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:25 +, Antonio Ricardo Soares da Silva
Correia wrote:
> Ben,
>
> what I want is to be able to run the 686 SMP kernel like I manage to do in
> other dists and, while this issue is not solved, to be at least able to run
> the 686 non SMP kernel as I used to with Hoary a
> > If you want, you can try the Edgy Knot-3 LiveCD to see if it fixes your
> > problem.
> DOes that include an SMP kernel? All the *buntu distros I've used before
> do no CPU hardware detection, and just install the default 386 kernel.
> How would a 'live' CD anyway detect the PIII and switc
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Ben Collins wrote:
> How about booting the 686 kernel with the nosmp on the boot command
> line?
That was suggested earlier, and I reported that it threw all kind of
wierd missing interrupt errors, finally giving up on mounting the disk,
and dropped me into busybox.
>
> A
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:13 +, Richard Green wrote:
> That's not the issue. the 386 kernel is the default, and is what I've been
> running. The desire for a 686 non-SMP kernel is to determine if the
> problem is with the 686 optimizations or the SMP code.
>WHat I really want is for someo
That's not the issue. the 386 kernel is the default, and is what I've been
running. The desire for a 686 non-SMP kernel is to determine if the
problem is with the 686 optimizations or the SMP code.
WHat I really want is for someone with knowledge of the kernel internals
to look at Paul's pat
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Antonio Ricardo Soares da Silva Correia wrote:
> Richard, perhaps you are right in what concerns the ATI 7000 but that
> doesn't explain why my system works flawlessly with the other
> distributions and only fails with (K)Ubuntu. Oddly enough, now, even the
> plain 686 kern
