On Friday 04 October 2002 14:55, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: well I thought it had worked, booted once last night into smp mode, however it will not boot smp this morning. I double checked the noapic i appended to the lilo entry for linux-smp (my default boot image) it is still there, but it fails to boot into smp mode this morning :-( the append line of my lilo.conf for this entry looks like this:
append=:devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi noapic" is this the right place and have I done it the right way to add "noapic" to the boot line? > I had to add "noapic" to the boot line to get my dual athlon to work. I > also have "mem=nopentium", but I think that is video related, not smp. > > TTFN, > Lonnie Borntreger > > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:09, Brent Hasty wrote: > > I have a msi k7d-master mobo and dual athlon 1ghz mp processors, I have > > installed the full release (pending the arrival of my preordered dvd > > powerpack) things went smoothly, untill it booted for the first time. > > while initilazing the kernel around the acpi functions the bootstrapping > > process loops and the computer resets. I have tried stripping it down to > > the base of components, just mobo, ram and vid card. still no smp boot. > > I have tried playing with the acpi settings in the bios still no smp > > boot. It will boot in single processor mode, how and where can I chek > > the log to see exactly what it going on when trying to boot in smp mode > > and the computer resets. how do I get dual processor mode working?
