I have a system with the following configuration: Tyan Thunder 1590d dual-processor board with a SINGLE AMD K6 200mhz processor installed, and a Buslogic Multimaster SCSI controller. IDE interfaces are disabled. I have just replaced a RedHat 6.0 installation with RedHat 6.1, and the system no longer boots properly. Instead, I get the following sequence: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1.56 usecs. CPU0: AMD AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping 02 calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 199.4318 MHz. ..... system bus clock speed is 0.0000 MHz. Booting processor 1 eip 2000 APIC never delivered??? APIC delivery error (ef). CPU #1 not responding. Removing from cpu_online_map. Booting processor 15 eip 2000 Not responding. Total of 2 processors activated (398.13 BogoMIPS). enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done. ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT... .. (found pin 0) ... failed. ...trying to set up timer as BP IRQ... failed. Kernel panic: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! In swapper task - not syncing If I use the Boot/recovery floppy, and tell it to boot /dev/sda1, the system comes up and runs just fine. Any suggestions?
I have exactly the same problem with at Tyan SMP motherboard with a single intel P233 Mhz. RedHat 5.2 was working fine, but not 6.1. I have been told to install a kernel that does not support SMP.
Assigned to dledford
Boot with the 'noapic' boot option - that should work.
The installer should also not install an SMP kernel when it finds a CPU that isnt Athlon or Intel Pentium(or higher). SMP table or otherwise (and yes the real bug is the SMP table on uniprocessor setup). Does anaconda do this right ?
Please reopen this bug if you continue to have problems.