Re: Problem booting RH8.0 with SMP kernel after fresh install

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just recently installed RH8.0 on my third server, but this one has 
> 2 300MHz CPU's and won't boot the default SMP kernel that is installed 
> upon RH8.0's installation.
>
> Upon booting, grub lists the two kernels I can boot:
>
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14smp)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14smp ro root=LABEL=/
>        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14smp.img
> title Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.18-14)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
>        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
>
> Booting the smp version results in a partial kernel start then a reboot 
> of the server.
>
> Booting the non-smp version works fine, although I can only find one 
> processor loaded afterwards.
>
> The server is an Acer Altos 930 with 256meg RAM and two 300MHz CPU's. It 
> used to run Red Hat 6.0, with SMP working fine, but I blew it away and 
> started from scratch with RH8.0.

If it uses AMD processors, add "noapic" to the boot command line on
the SMP kernel (highlight the SMP kernel, hit "e", add " noapic" to
the end of the "kernel" line, save it and hit "b").
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