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.
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