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From: Jeff Gustafson <method@zimage.com>
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Subject: Re: SMP 440GX+ hang on boot (2.4.16)
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> >        The funny thing is that the kernels from RH 7.2 (2.4.7-10) and Alan
> > Cox's latest (2.4.13-ac8) work just fine.  The 2.4.16 kernel does not 
> > work.  Is there a possiblity that the fix could posted to linux-kernel?  
> > Maybe it could be put into the upcoming 2.4.17 release.  Please??
> 
> 1) Did you enable ACPI in your own kernel ?

	No ACPI.  We used RH's 7.2 i686 SMP config file as a starting 
point to build 2.4.16.

> 2) Does "noapic" make a difference ?

	That made it worse.  Just gets stuck right in the middle of
initalizing the driver.  Before it would initialize, but couldn't mount
the root partition.

				...Jeff

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