Re: [expert] enable SMP

[Bill Beauchemin]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:

> I had that problem too. Someone sent me a patch for a kernel, but,
> not knowing enough about how to use it, I haven't yet. The solution
> (that *I* found) was to boot with a "noapic" option at LILO. It
> complains, but at least it boots. But I've got other problems which
> keep me from booting to SMP on my Dual-200 PPro board.
>       John
> 
Funny you mentioned the APIC. here is the last couple of lines during the
boot proceses.

Kernel Panic. Kernel compiled for PPro+ assumes local APIC without
read-before write bug

In Swapper task Not Syncing.


It stops right there.

Whats the patch? How do you do the noapic at lilo? What the hell is APIC?




Bill Beauchemin
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