Hi there, I have now managed to resolve a problem that I originally emailed to the list about a year ago and thought, for the sake of completeness, I would give the solution. The original email is appended below and was about the failure of 2.4 series kernels to boot properly on an Asus A7M266-D motherboard.
The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that does but it fixes the problem. The reason I came across it is that I upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 by doing a fresh install, the only problem being that the installer hung right away. I guess it must be based on the 2.4 kernel whereas the 8.1 installer (which worked) was based on 2.2? Paul. --- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- Hi, We're running Mandrake 8.1 on a dual Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) Asustek A7M266-D board. Installation seemd to go okay but when we try the enterprise (2.4.8-26) or smp kernel (2.4.8-34.1) the machine hangs at two different stages during the boot process. Sometimes it hangs at the IO-APIC test and sometimes it gets past this and hangs a few lines later after printing stuff about CPU0. The up kernel (2.4.8-26) works fine. We also have no success with the 2.4.18 smp kernel. We DO have success with the older 2.2.19-20.1 smp kernel! Does anybody have any idea what changed from 2.2 to 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Paul Fotheringham --- END ORIGINAL MESSAGE ---
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