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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk (Alastair Stevens),
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Subject: Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4]
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Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I installed Red Hat 7.2 and the machine boots fine, using SMP or UP
> kernels (Red Hat 2.4.9-7), but totally HANGS at the login prompt. Can't
> type, can't reboot, can't do anything. Single user mode _does_ let me
> in, however, and this is the only progress so far.

Try plugging in a mouse or stop running gpm.
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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )
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