Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 19, 2002 12:37 AM
Have you guys tried booting with the 'noapic' boot option (ie use "linux noapic" at the LILO prompt)?
It seems some motherboards have buggy APIC (Advanced Promgrammeable Interrupt Controller) implementations, that give problems on 2.4.19 kernels. In many cases, wierd hardware errors (I saw it once where a network card was not recognized) are as a result of this.
This seems to be common on AMD boards running VIA chipsets.
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APIC problems?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 19, 2002 12:37 AMIt seems some motherboards have buggy APIC (Advanced Promgrammeable Interrupt Controller) implementations, that give problems on 2.4.19 kernels. In many cases, wierd hardware errors (I saw it once where a network card was not recognized) are as a result of this.
This seems to be common on AMD boards running VIA chipsets.
This is noted in the Mandrake 9.0 errata AFAIK.
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