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On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:21 -0400, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: |
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> I've got an old PII Intergraph TD-225 PC that I'm trying to install Gentoo |
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> onto. Bios is AMIBIOS. The system supports dual CPU but only has one. |
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> It currently has WinXP running on it fine. But every Linux install/boot CD |
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> I've run (Gentoo, CentOS, Knoppix, etc.) hangs while booting (2.4 and 2.6 |
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> kernels). |
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> The last thing I see from the CentOS boot process is the following: |
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> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. |
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> SMP alternatives: switching to UP code |
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> Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed |
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> CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 |
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> Then it just hangs. CD can pop out and everything. Can anyone give me any |
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> idea what's going wrong? |
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Typically, adding the boot parameter noapic (not noapci!) is the first |
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thing one should try. |
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