Hi, I get this on boot with 2.6.14-rt9 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#3. CPU3: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.50GHz stepping 05 Total of 4 processors activated (11165.69 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed. ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed. ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(. Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the It does boot up with noapic, but a nonRT kernel does not have the above problem I have attached the .config below Appreciate any help -Dinakar