From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: When I used the smp kernel (kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4) it takes about 15 mins or more to boot up my HP ZX5000 laptop. Using the none smp kernel, boots up fine. I am using a P4 3.06ghz HT northwood processor Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Use the kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 Actual Results: very slow bootup Expected Results: normal speed bootup similar to none SMP kernel Additional info: It seems other kernels after 2.6.12 is also suffering from this problem. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5165 A workaround is given here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79503 echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate
kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 resolves this issue. Please resolve and close this bug.