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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:42:45 +0100
To: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>
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Robert L. Harris writes:
 > was scrolling so fast I couldn't even read it.  It looked like it was 
 > reporting ACIC errors on a CPU but couldn't quite be sure.  It required 
 > a hard reset as it was unresponsive to c-a-d and sysreq commands.

If it says "APIC error on CPU blah" then you have a problem.
First, upgrade to something a bit more trustworthy, like 2.4.20-pre11
or RedHat's 2.4.18-17.7.x kernel. If that doesn't help, try booting
with "noapic" as parameter to the kernel.

/Mikael
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