From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Description of problem: Booting from the CD, the kernel hangs (keyboard unresponsive to CTRL-ALT-DEL) after the following message is displayed: ENABLING IO-API IRQs Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical API ID to 2... ok. ...TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert CDROM (Psyche ISO disc 1) 2. Cold boot / reboot box 3. At boot prompt, hit return or enter "linux noprobe" Actual Results: Kernel messages scroll by. Waited 10 minutes with no change in status. Keyboard was unresponsive to CTRL-ALT-DEL. Similarly, the Shift Lock and Num Lock keys didn't toggle the LEDs. Expected Results: Expected to get the install GUI so I could upgrade the box to RH8. The CD was media checked and used successfully to upgrade my other box to RH8 ("olympus" - an Athlon uniprocessor box). Additional info: This box boots fine with the Red Hat 7.1 linux-up kernel. Feel free to refer to my hardware configuration in my list of RHN subscribed systems for more info ("gemini" -- an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, dual Pentium III (1.0 GHz), with 1 GB of RAM). Contents of screen: Memory: 898528k/917504k available (1162k kernel code, 16412k reserved, 359k data, 176k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled in CPU#0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Enabling ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 ENABLING IO-API IRQs Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical API ID to 2... ok. ...TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
can you try passing the "noapic" option ?
The noapic option (workaround?) works (kernel boots) -- I'll add this to the append setting in lilo.conf. Pls advise if you need more info.
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