Re: [PLUG] New box won't play with Linux

["Forge XP" <forge@dca.net>]

Use option 'noapic' at the kernel append line till you update the BIOS. BIOS
1004 did this to me, 1005 does not. The board is totally unstable here,
though, so beware.

- Rich 'Forge' Mingin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Keiser" <tek@teklogic1.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:37 PM
Subject: [PLUG] New box won't play with Linux


> I'm trying to make a new box behave, without success. It has
> an ASUS A7M266-D, dual-athlon processor with the AMD
> chipsets in it, along with some other stuff that I know is
> OK, like Adaptec SCSI card, Elsa video, etc.
>
> RedHat 7.2 will only run in Uniprocessor mode; in SMP mode,
> it starts the boot cycle, finds and installs both
> processors, then displays this and stops completely:
>
> total of 2 processors activated (6121.06 Bogomips)
> Enabling IO-APIC IRQs
> ... changing IO-APIC Physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok
> .. timer: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
> _ (non-blinking cursor, box is dead).
>
> Mandrake 8.1 installs ok, but will only run in "failsafe"
> mode.
>
> Suse 7.3 gets 5 seconds into the install (getting kernel)
> and dies.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Keiser
>
> --
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>
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