Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4]

From: Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 16:10:04 EST

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* Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au) wrote:
> Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > I installed Red Hat 7.2 and the machine boots fine, using SMP or UP
> > kernels (Red Hat 2.4.9-7), but totally HANGS at the login prompt. Can't
> > type, can't reboot, can't do anything. Single user mode _does_ let me
> > in, however, and this is the only progress so far.
>
> Try plugging in a mouse or stop running gpm.

Yeah, and make sure that silly "PCI Interrupts in MP table" or
whatever in your BIOS is on or you may have other problems.

Stephen

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