Re: [expert] PROBLEM: SMP Kernel locks up Dual-PPro

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> FWIW, my single ppro 200/512 systes with an Asus mainboard, 440FX chipset
> with
> smp disabled is not showing any lockups whatsoever. I am currently running
> all SCSI, but if anyone sees value, I'll throw in an IDE device or two and
> see what happens.
> 
Well, see, that's the thing. If I don't run the SMP kernel
it works fine. Someone suggested I try adding "noaip" at
the lilo prompt and see if that fixes it. According to the
kernel doc files, that option is to solve some motherboards
that are "broken" (have buggy "advanced" I/O.)
        John