Feigning erudition, Jack Berger wrote:
% Suse 7.x has the same problem. It's due to Yast2 seeing Pentium 4 as an SMP
% installation.
% 
%   http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_noapic.html
%   http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/disableapic.html
%   http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/swiegra_delldimension8100.html
% 
% I recall seeing something about windows having a similar problem w/CPUID issues.
% 
% -jhb-
% 
% From: Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% 
% On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:10:31AM +0100, Coppernix wrote:
% >>I'm so sorry. I didn't read all messages (I am in late
% >>with all these mails).
% >>Thanks to Jim Bonnet.
% >>The option "acpi=off" on the grub's line is The
% >>solution.
% >
% >I ran into this problem installing SuSE 8.1 on an HP Visualize P-CLASS box
% >with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI host adapter.  Strangely enough installing SCO
% >Linux 4.0 on this same machine worked without a problem, and the only way I
% >could boot SuSE was using the SCO kernel out of grub telling it mount a
% >different partition.

Oy. Is this hyperthreading stepping up to bite us?

Kurt
-- 
Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.
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