Some dual processor motherboards are buggy with their APIC stuff. You
could try booting with the "noapic" option. It is listed in the folowing
doc in the kernel source: linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
For info on how to do that, see the kernel bootprompt howto:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
julian
On 2001.08.30 14:33 A.P. Etc wrote:
> I have a dual system with a Tyan Tiger 133 (S1834) Dual Slot1 motherboard
> with two Pentium 2 450's. Sometimes it gives me the error "APIC error on
> CPU0: 08(08)" or the like. It does it with no particular pattern but when
> it does happen, it scrolls a screen or two. The system also ocassionally
> has a kernel panic (has happened twice in the last two months) which
> appears to possibly be related. Any ideas on whats wrong or what I could
> check?
>
> -A.P. Etc
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I have a dual system with a Tyan Tiger 133
> (S1834)
> Dual Slot1 motherboard with two Pentium 2 450's. Sometimes it gives me
> the error
> "APIC error on CPU0: 08(08)" or the like. It does it with no particular
> pattern
> but when it does happen, it scrolls a screen or two. The system also
> ocassionally has a kernel panic (has happened twice in the last two
> months)
> which appears to possibly be related. Any ideas on whats wrong or what I
> could
> check?
>
> -A.P. Etc
>
--
mail : julian @ catchen.org | ( topeka )
www : http://catchen.org/topeka/ | phx, az
sent : Fri Aug 31, 2001 12:00PM MST |
And if cynics ridicule freedom, ridicule community...if "hard nosed
realists" say that profit is the only ideal...just ignore them, and use
copyleft all the same.
-- RMS