Well John. Your advice was very very good. At the lilo promt I did:
linux noapic
and then my box continued to boot, no problems anywhere. When it started
up, linux_logo said that I had two 200mhz processors and I was using the
SMP kernel. I owe ya. :)
Thanks a lot!!!
--
Tyler Longren
[Web Development]
Premier Visual Services
http://www.pvs2000.com
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Tyler Longren wrote:
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:03:04 CDT
> To: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Tyler Longren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] SMP support
>
> Alright John...I'll go try it now...I'll post my results to the list!!!
>
> :)
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:50:50 -0400
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [expert] SMP support
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This is my first post to this list. I just got a dual 200 mhz HP
> > Vectra XW
> > > with 128 RAM. It only has a 1 gig HD now (all I had that would work
> > with
> > > it). Anyway, the processors are Intel Pentium Pro's. I installed
> > Mandrake
> > > 7.0, it installed the SMP kernel, but when I choose to boot with SMP
> > > support, it never boots up. It boots fine using only 1 processor.
> > >
> > > Here is where it stops booting:
> > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on IRQ 15
> > >
> > > It hits that point in the boot, then freezes. It is possible that
> all
> > of
> > > the needed components didn't get installed because of the lack of
> hard
> > > drive space?
> > >
> > Try this:
> > at lilo type "linux-smp noapic" (assuming "linux-smp"
> > is the image name for your SMP kernel) and I almost
> > GUARANTEE it'll boot fine. The problem seems to be that you
> > have a buggy "APIC" (not sure what that is other than it
> > helps handing out IRQs in an SMP environment -- linux will
> > run SMP w/o APIC, but it's not quite as efficient, from
> > what I understand!) and linux is freaking out.
> >
> > I had a similar problem with a generic implementation of a
> > dual-ppro Intel chipset. When I got the GENUINE Intel
> > motherboard, it worked just fine w/o the "noapic" option.
> > If that solves things for you, just add it to your
> > /etc/lilo.conf and re-run /sbin/lilo to write the changes
> > to the MBR.
> > John
> >
> --
> Tyler Longren
> [Web Development]
> Premier Visual Services
> http://www.pvs2000.com
>
>
