I'm getting the following with 2.4.19-pre2 on boot and in dmesg. Was also getting the message in 2.4.18 as well. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #1...... .... register #00: 01008000 ....... : physical APIC id: 01 WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org .... register #01: 00178020 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : PRQ implemented: 1 ....... : IO APIC version: 0020 .... register #02: 00000000 ....... : arbitration: 00 I know the message is coming from /linux/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c printk(KERN_DEBUG "....... : physical APIC id: %02X\n", reg_00.ID); if (reg_00.__reserved_1 || reg_00.__reserved_2) UNEXPECTED_IO_APIC(); reg_00.__reserved_1 is from struct IO_APIC_reg_00 defined in /include/asm-i386/io_apic.h Any ideas what the apic would return to cause this is coming up? I'm using an i860 chipset with a dual Xeon. Thanks, Troy -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/