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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Kernel panics on bootup
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chris Snyder <csnyder@mvpsoft.com>
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On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 22:51, Chris Snyder wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.  Would it be possible for me to get this 
> working with only one processor, then?  The nosmp option doesn't let it 
> boot.

Firstly check if the BIOS has any kind of "OS" or "Intel MP" options. If
it has an OS option try setting it to something Unixlike. 

Next build a completely non SMP kernel and see if that boots. Let me
know what that one does because the SMP failure should not have been a
crash regardless of what it found

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