Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265045AbTFCPRr (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:17:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265046AbTFCPRr (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:17:47 -0400 Received: from hoemail2.lucent.com ([192.11.226.163]:38072 "EHLO hoemail2.firewall.lucent.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265045AbTFCPRq (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:17:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16092.48937.452212.3930@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:30:49 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Martin Schlemmer Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer , KML Subject: Re: 2.5.70 and 2.5.70-mm3 hang on bootup In-Reply-To: <1054651654.5268.64.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> References: <16090.15708.707835.911577@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <16090.48773.258921.532437@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <16092.43423.958091.657360@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1054651654.5268.64.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 20.6.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 26 Martin> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:58, John Stoffel wrote: >> Thanks for all the help, my initial thoughts that APIC was the root of >> my problem was wrong, it was all ACPI issues. Maybe we should put in >> a note in the Kconfig help entries for people to disable ACPI if they >> enable SMP and/or UP APIC options? >> Martin> Both my previous board (Asus P4T533-C with 850E chipset) and Martin> current one (Asus P4C800 with 875P chipset) works fine with Martin> ACPI, APIC, and IO-APIC enabled .... You have much newer chipsets that I do, I have a 440GX board. My suggestion for the note in Kconfig is merely that if your system hangs after printing just a couple of lines on bootup, try disabling ACPI in your kernel. I probably wasn't clear enough. John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/