Re: [gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.
Andrew MacKenzie wrote: I've got an old PII Intergraph TD-225 PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo onto. Bios is AMIBIOS. The system supports dual CPU but only has one. It currently has WinXP running on it fine. But every Linux install/boot CD I've run (Gentoo, CentOS, Knoppix, etc.) hangs while booting (2.4 and 2.6 kernels). The last thing I see from the CentOS boot process is the following: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 Then it just hangs. CD can pop out and everything. Can anyone give me any idea what's going wrong? I looked at my dmesg and ACPI seems to come after that on mine. May want to try to disable that until some one else has other ideas. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:21 -0400, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: I've got an old PII Intergraph TD-225 PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo onto. Bios is AMIBIOS. The system supports dual CPU but only has one. It currently has WinXP running on it fine. But every Linux install/boot CD I've run (Gentoo, CentOS, Knoppix, etc.) hangs while booting (2.4 and 2.6 kernels). The last thing I see from the CentOS boot process is the following: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 Then it just hangs. CD can pop out and everything. Can anyone give me any idea what's going wrong? Typically, adding the boot parameter noapic (not noapci!) is the first thing one should try. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] PII Hangs while booting.
+++ Florian Philipp [gentoo-user] [Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:00:20PM +0100]: On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:21 -0400, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: Then it just hangs. CD can pop out and everything. Can anyone give me any idea what's going wrong? Typically, adding the boot parameter noapic (not noapci!) is the first thing one should try. Good suggestions. I tried a few different parameters and it seems nosmp gets it booting. I think Linux is getting a little confused with the 'missing' CPU? Either way it seems to work now. Thanks! -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. // This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. // -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar pgpvjvnWQIhaQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
