So far so good, also vanilla kernel from kernel.org 2.6.20-rc3-git3 requires this "nmi_watchdog=0" (which i think is odd that it suddenly is needed)
$ procinfo Linux 2.6.20-rc3-git3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc [can't parse]) #??? 1CPU [unubut] Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Mem: 2075520 887172 1188348 0 349292 Swap: 2096440 0 2096440 Bootup: Thu Jan 4 00:01:49 2007 Load average: 0.07 0.31 0.28 1/163 5633 user : 0:00:41.67 4.7% page in : 592097 disk 1: 104805r 17536w nice : 0:00:15.69 1.8% page out: 263324 system: 0:00:26.02 2.9% page act: 68398 IOwait: 0:03:50.09 25.8% page dea: 0 hw irq: 0:00:02.55 0.3% page flt: 1155035 sw irq: 0:00:00.77 0.1% swap in : 0 idle : 0:09:35.82 64.5% swap out: 0 uptime: 0:14:52.64 context : 543707 irq 0: 267812 timer irq 8: 3 rtc irq 1: 956 i8042 irq 9: 1082 acpi irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 10: 2 ohci1394, uhci_hcd:u irq 3: 2 irq 11: 0 uhci_hcd:usb1, yenta irq 4: 25399 eth0, yenta, ipw2200 irq 12: 50001 i8042 irq 5: 0 uhci_hcd:usb2 irq 14: 122351 ide0 irq 7: 1 parport0 [3] irq 15: 7901 ide1 -- linux-image-2.6.20-3-generic in ubuntu feisty crashes shortly after boot with NMI https://launchpad.net/bugs/77829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs