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Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] rebooting problem solved - athlon/SiS incompatibility.
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:04:29PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> Note the words "an athlon thunderbird processor".  The documentation says, as
> I remember, that turning on SMP on a UP board should have no appreciable effect.

It has the effect of turning on the IO-APIC, which often causes problems.

Check if you can boot with noapic with the SMP kernel

-Andi