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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: dushaw@apl.washington.edu (Brian Dushaw)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ASUS CUV4X-D Dual CPU's - Failure to boot...
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:40:10 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m15IndK-000OzlC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107062244260.3175-100000@munk.apl.washington.edu>

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107062244260.3175-100000@munk.apl.washington.edu> you wrote:
> Dear Kernel People,
>   A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard
> and dual 1GHZ PIII's.  We have installed RedHat 7.1.  The original
> RedHat SMP kernel (2.4.2) did not boot; it froze with some complaints
> about APIC.  The backup single processor kernel 2.4.2 booted o.k.,
> however.   The upgraded kernel from RedHat (2.4.3) also refused to boot
> properly - the boot up will start and the screen will then go blank
> before I can discern any informative messages.  I also downloaded the
> latest 2.4.6 kernel which had the identical problem, and then I also
> applied the latest Alan-Cox patch for 2.4.6 which did not solve the
> problem.  The 2.4.6 kernel will boot when only a single processor
> is used, however.

For several people the following works:
1) Upgrade to the latest bios
2) Change the "MPS" level in the bios. It can have 3 values "1.4" "1.1" and
   "none". the default one doesn't work, one of the others does (but I
   forgot which one)

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-07  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-07  6:04 Brian Dushaw
2001-07-07  8:40 ` arjan [this message]
2001-07-07 13:56   ` John Cavan
2001-07-07 12:07 ` Alan Cox

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