Just a guess:Hi! I have a Mandrake 9.1 box running on an Intel Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading. When I installed Mandrake it correctly identified my hyperthreading capabilities and installed the smp version of the operating system and defaults to that version in lilo. When I permit the system to boot with that default it goes through a page or two of the loading process ultimately crashing with a kernel panic which states that it can't find the init and suggests that I boot with an init= statement. I have checked lilo.conf and verified that the initrd setting is for the smp image and that the file which is referenced is actually present on my harddrive. I have also edited the initrd setting to point directly to the mdksmp img instead of the more general img file but the system behaves in exactly the same way no matter which initrd img I specify.
I would like to take advantage of the hyperthreading capabilities of my chip and I was wondering if someone knows the magic boot parameters that I need to smooth this out. I read the article in LinuxWorld Magazine and added the acpismp=force statement to my append line in lilo but that doesn't make any difference. Mandrake 9.1 has a kernel that is greater than 2.4.18 and it is supposed to support hyperthreading. I have verfied that hyperthreading is turned on in my bios. I would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction to find a solution. Thanks.
Traci
Try booting with "acpi=off" switch.
Larry
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