On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Alexander Orevkov wrote:
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hmm, could you please try to boot using the "disableapic" kernel parameter? Hope that helps!
Thank you, this fixes the problem, but what does it mean - hardware failure or 2.4.10 kernel bug? I don't know what is APIC (and have no time to learn), but I want to know if I should enable this option after future kernel upgrade or it's safe to forget this?
Glad to hear, that it fixes your problem. APIC is an acronym for "Avanced Programmable Interrupt Controller" and is a piece of hardware usually used on SMP systems. Due to buggy hardware (a certain ASUS P4 Mainboard, IIRC), we had to enable APIC support for the non-SMP Kernel as well. Unfortunately it seems like this feature does lead to instability on other UP systems. The kernel parameter disables this feature. If you do not have an SMP system (only one processor), you can simply disable it when you recompile your kernel. So I would consider it a mixture between a kernel and hardware bug :) Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany When all else fails, read the instructions.