On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Doc wrote: > Il Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:05:04 +0200, il tuo gatto camminando sulla tastiera ha scritto: > >> Same sort of problems with 2.2 SMP. > > > >That's strange. This starts to smell like hardware problems. > > > > yep. > finally i must resign... > after 5 days of battle against that shitty box, i've tried to install > (sic) windows 2k. installation crashes (i know that it seems to be > normal... but not in my case) > i don't know why (i've also tried moving around devices to avoid > interrupt shares) but SMP does not work. - Disable MP 1.4 support in BIOS and go for MP 1.1 support (if your BIOS allows it). - Try to boot with "noapic" option. - Try a BIOS upgrade. If all else fails, introduce the motherboard to a hammer. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
