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

[Tom Keiser <tek@teklogic1.com>]

Thanks, you nailed it for sure. BTW, in which case is the board unstable: with
1004 and noapic, or with 1005?

Forge XP wrote:

> 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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