On Sun Jan 2 13:00:20 EST 2011, [email protected] wrote: > on a dual-core Core Duo (aka Centrino Duo) laptop (HP dv8000), booting > a cpu kernel either crashes on start up or very soon after with a > slight user load if smp is enabled; without smp it works normally. i > think it may be the same problem Dan reported a while back: > > http://9fans.net/archive/2009/06/45 > > i don't know if sata is a red herring. this is a recent kernel build > (last 3 weeks) and although it has two drives they are not touched > (contain Widows partitions); it pxeloads and boots from a kenfs.
try a 9atom kernel. if things still fail, send me the ktrace output. a camera shot will be fine. i never see this, but if it happens, i'll fix it. - erik
