Re: PROBLEM: Kernel panics on bootup

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 18:04:46 EST


On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 22:51, Chris Snyder wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply. Would it be possible for me to get this
> working with only one processor, then? The nosmp option doesn't let it
> boot.

Firstly check if the BIOS has any kind of "OS" or "Intel MP" options. If
it has an OS option try setting it to something Unixlike.

Next build a completely non SMP kernel and see if that boots. Let me
know what that one does because the SMP failure should not have been a
crash regardless of what it found

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