>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 > I found that 5 minutes after I sent this message... system boots up 2 processors with the noapic cmdline. >see if that works... you can't ues the APIC unless your MB has >the chip... > I have the chip. This is a straight Intel system. And the EISA config states that it has to be turned on for SMP operation. Booting with the APIC turned off in the BIOS/EISA boots the kernel with only one processor. Also the APIC is detected by the kernel. Which brings me to another conclusion. How do I find Brian Perkins... He is the one that wrote the code that my kernel is panicing at. I am blowing right past all of his failsafes. >--- 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. \ >> Intel Xpress Server 1.00.19.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) - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
