-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Grant wrote: | I have a working 8.1 pro system that I'm thinking about upgrading to | 9.1. However, this morning when I tried to boot the system from the 9.1 | live CD I get an oops and kernel panic when the boot process tries to | load the aic7xxx driver. | | The system is an SMP Tyan S2469 motherboard with the built-in Adaptec | 7902 SCSI contoller. I initially had a problem booting with this board | and the aic7xxx driver under 8.1 too. I worked around that issue by | using the "noapic" boot option and have been using that "fix" reliably | since then. | | Is APIC/ACPI still broke in 2.6 with SMP? The "noapic" workaround | didn't seem to have any effect in 9.1, at least not on this problem. | Perhaps there's a different method of accomplishing the same thing with | the 2.6 kernel that I'm not aware of? Or is this a different problem? | (In which case, do I still need to use the noapic option?) | | I can get more info if necessary. After wasting several days trying to | figure out the noapic thing under 8.1 myself though I thought I'd post | my initial experiences with 9.1 & the 2.6 kernel to see if anyone else | has seen this and has a fix before I waste too much time on this myself. | | TIA for any help... | | -John | | Same problem here while trying to install the live cd into VMware which emulates a SCSI disk. Claudiu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAp61qscHOkmkK0W0RAsbiAJ0eqyiKSo+U9rCVO7500IAffupYdACfdTk8 vBEFig+c+46pp2faSTQuhaU= =xh7t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----