Bug 7484 - provided SMP kernal causing kernel panic on boot
Summary: provided SMP kernal causing kernel panic on boot
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: lilo
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-12-01 17:07 UTC by robertd
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-01-04 22:36:07 UTC
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Description robertd 1999-12-01 17:07:28 UTC 
I have successfully loaded Linux 6.1 on my Digital Prioris XK 5200 DP box.

The install did not recognise the SMP so I installed the SMP kernel as
shown in Knowledge Base Request 175.

Booting the SMP kernel causes an error:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffd000
current->tss.cr3=00101000, %cr3=00101000
*pde=00285067
*pte=00000000
Oops:0002
.
.
.
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In Swapper task - not syncing
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-01-04 22:26:59 UTC 
Assigned to dledford
Comment 2 robertd 2000-01-04 22:36:59 UTC 
Adding the qualifier noapic to the boot allows the system to boot.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-04 04:58:06 UTC 
This is a bad hardware/kernel interaction which gets correctly worked around
with the noapic parameter.
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