From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I've forced my system to boot with the option noapic in smp mode by adding "noapic" in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. In non-smp mode there is no problem at all. It's seems to hang at detection of the second CPU. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot in smp mode with apic (note plug and play os active in BIOS) 2. 3. Additional info:
I have the exact same problem on a MSI 694D Pro 2, dual Pentium 3 Board.
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