From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I have a dual-Athlon MP system; if I boot into the SMP kernel or Windows and then do a warm reboot into the UP kernel *immediately without entering BIOS* everything works fine. However, if I do a cold-boot into the UP kernel, or entered the BIOS prior to booting the UP kernel, I get stuck in 'Configuring kernel parameters' - not hung, since I can type anything, but CTRL+ALT+DEL does not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot into UP kernel after booting another kernel (SMP, Windows, etc) 2.Boot into UP kernel after booting another kernel, but enter BIOS setup first 3.Cold boot into UP kernel Actual Results: after (2) and (3) boot process stop at 'Configuring kernel parameters' - i.e. it would not set the system clock Expected Results: Boot process proceeds normally Additional info: Motherboard: ASUS A7M266-D CPU: 2xAthlon MP 1600+ (1400 MHz) RAM: 1x512 MB DDR SDRAM Tried turning on/off every single BIOS options related to SMP, no effect. Did not notice problem before flashing BIOS from revision 1004 to revision 1008 yesterday, but this Linux install was done two days ago so probably I never booted straight into UP before then (had to because my WLAN network card is unstable under SMP)
I think this kernel disabled APIC for Uniprocessor machines to workaround Bug 62295 which prevented several mobile Atlon laptops from rebooting. Try recompiling the current Athlon UP kernel config with this option re-enabled. I don't know if this would help, but I think it may be related.
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