Having a local APIC in an ACPI (kernel-patched) computer is a MAJOR problem -- can cause lockups at boot. Either disable it, or disable SMP and Local APIC support in your kernel (you probably don't want to recompile your kernel).
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 18:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 31 October 2002 03:49 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > I just did a recent upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. And I have > > been experiencing some internet sluggishness from this > > box. None of the other computers on the network 8.2's > > are experiencing the slowdowns. What could this be? > > > > - Paul > > Paul, I had the same experience. Sometimes my system would > even come to a complete stalemate. After some looking > around it seems that some motherboards don't like the > "apic" option per default passed to the kernel. APIC is > some kind of interrupt daemon IIRC (?). > > Solution : Edit (as root, of course) /etc/lilo.conf > "append" - line to append=" noapic " > > Then run /sbin/lilo (as root) and reboot. > > Worked for me. > > Now I suddenly recall : The problem is documented on the > Mandrake home page under "errata". > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42!
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