From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; AT&T WNS5.0; SV1; SALT 1.0.50414.1 0111 Developer; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.50215; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Netscape/8.0.3.3 Description of problem: Only when I try to boot the smp version of Linux do I get the following: (1)IOAPIC#1 ID 3 8254 timer not connected I have tried passing the kernel the following: acpi=off, pci=noacpi, and apm=off there does not help. I also tried to build a version of the kernel which support for APIC and APM were disabled and I still the same message. I cannot tell if this is just a warning or an actual error. After I see the message, the machine continues to start and then ... (2) Determining IP info for eth0 .... Device Busy ... SIOCSIFFLAGS and the machine hangs Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11 smp version only How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try boot from Fedora Core 4 smp version 2. 3. Actual Results: See description Expected Results: Linux should have come up and allowed me to do some work. Additional info: Hardware: Asus cur-dls motherboard, Dual Pentium 3 (CopperMine)
please retry this with the errata kernel, 2.6.11 is very old now, and a lot of bugs have been fixed since then.
Closed due to lack of response. Please reopen when the requested information becomes available...thanks!