I too am getting this bug on 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 Alpha . I also get it on other Live distros but not with BlueWhite 64 and 64Studio, so figure.
Cristian's comment above about Hyper Threading worked for me! I found that DISABLING the "HPET Support" option in the BIOS (Gigabyte board, specs to follow) enabled 8.04 to boot without the error and I see from the messages that both my cores are activated (unlike when using noapic). Specs are: AMD X2 5200+ Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 (Rev 1.1) with BIOS F10 (latest as at 13/12/2007) nforce 550 chipset 4G 800 RAM nVidia 7300 GS I'm going to try some other Live distros (Mint 4 and TrueBSD) just to check that they can load without any boot options as these had issue before. Thanks Christian!! Now I just need to see what enabling/disabling HPET Support does.... -- ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91279 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
