> thing I'm noting now is that one processor seems to get marked as > failed every reboot of the system. Do I need to choose another > setting? or is it something else? Marked as failed by whom ? It could be the BIOS isnt correctly resetting all the hardware if its the bios that reports this > Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16 > Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16 Two processors says the bios > Total of 2 processors activated (397.72 BogoMIPS). We agree, both work. > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT... .. (found pin 0) ... works. Your bios has an error that is worked around. No big deal > WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ....... : IO APIC version: 0011 The setup was odd which triggered this. > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: Unable to handle I/O allocation for 01:30 (0400), tell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And the PCI gave it a suprise too. And up it comes. So from the Linux side it looks like its a slightly quirky box that we cope with. - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
