Hi,
if you are using lilo, try the noapic option.. for me to
boot a test-kernel it would look like
lilo:
test-image noapic
see if that works... you can't ues the APIC unless your MB has
the chip...
--- Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some trouble getting any smp kernel to run on my
> ancient Pentium system. The problem I am having is that (
> from what I have read in various linux smp documents) the my
> old Intel motherboard mp table is lying about the IRQ for the
> Real Time Clock. Thus preventing me from booting. The system
> boots up and detects both processors and then right after the
> IO-APIC starts I get this:
>
> IO APIC pin 2, 13 not connected.
> .. MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT... failed
> ...tryng to set up timer as BP IRQ... failed
> Kernel panic: IO APIC + timer doesn't work!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> I have read through the code and see that the error is coming
> directly from the IO-APIC code. I am assuming that you need
> the IO-APIC for SMP to work. Am I wrong? the todo list for
> the smp.c file states one of the todos is to separate IO-APIC
> from SMP. If I am wrong is it possible to prevent me from
> using IO-APIC. I am not to keen on SMP systems. This is my
> first attempt at it.
>
> Any help/comments would be appreciated.
>
> The system specs are like this:
>
> Intel Xpress Server 1.19.AM0 Bios
> dual Pentium 66 stepping 5 ( yes I know stepping 5 cpus have
> lockup problems but his isn't really a lockup... I can't even
> bootup far enough to see the cpus lockup)
> 2 - 8meg simms on the motherboard
> 6 - 8meg simms on the memory expansion card
> ISA ne2000 nic (detects on AutoProbe.. kinda sweet for 8 bucks
> :))
> EISA 2 DPT pm2122 Raid controllers (with 4megs of RAM and
> array module)
> EISA 1 DPT pm2122 SCSI card ( no ram, no array module)
> EISA AIC7170 (disabled)
> all Seagate scsi drives ( 3 - 2gigs, 2 - 1gigs )
> Exabyte tape drive (SCSI)
> NEC 4x CD (SCSI)
> standard floppies ( 1.44, 1.2 )
>
> plz don't tell me I have to put NT back on this machine!!
> seems such a waste of hardware.
>
> Joe Modjeski
> aka Prodigal_S0n
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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