From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-0.4.cl i686; Nav) Description of problem: Having upgraded to 7.2 from 7.1 the installer made 2.4.7-10smp the default kernel to boot. This kernel seems to start up OK but hangs after displaying the "Press I for interactive startup" message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.7-10smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. reset 2. select smp kernel 3. let it boot Actual Results: Hangs before running the init scripts. Expected Results: It should just work! Additional info: If I select the non-smp version it works fine. This doesn't bother me as it's a single processor board, but since the smp kernel is the default after installation, this might be a significant problem for other folk. Motherboard is GA-5AA F3 Processor: AMD K6/300 BIOS blurb: 51-0923-119900-00101111-071599-ALADDIN-GA5AA-T99-0
Arguably this is a bug in the installer, too. (I can't see how to reassign the bug -- wasn't there once a button on the form for this?) For the installer to use an smp kernel isn't ideal at the best of times, and it's definitely not cool if it stops it booting. As far as the kernel goes, I get similar problems with 2.4.9-13 on another motherboard: enabling smp (an accident when compiling) stopped it running the init scripts.
Should be fixed with newer kernels - they now don't simply believe the bios when it claims dual CPU 8)