Hyperthreading kernel hangs

[Gerrit]

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> I recently bought a Hyperthreading Intel Pentium 4 processor. I compiled
> Linux kernel 2.6.5 with hyperthreading. Unfortunately, it hangs
> irreproducably on boot; sometimes on 'starting Postfix', sometimes on
> 'starting console mouse services', etc. What kernel options do I need to
> configure in order to get hyperthreading working?

I figured it myself. I was searching for 'Hyperthreading' and thus
didn't find the kernel docs about 'Hyper Threading' ;-). For the archive
readers: in grub.conf, add "acpi=ht" to the kernel commandline. A
precompiled kernel does so self, but I compiled my own kernel.

Gerrit.

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