SV: Upgraded to 2.1.107 ... almost succesfully.

Brian Schau (bsc@fleggaard.dk)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 18:45:14 +0200


> Upgrade to modutils-2.1.85, it will fix your problem.
>
>
> --- thought so. I am searching for a suitable rpm-archive. I've
> been rejected by redhats ftp-server due to high load. I will try one
> of their mirrors.
>
>
>
>
> > ... I've never seen IO-APIC's reports before, so I am a bit worried
> > about 'broken BIOS' & 'not connected'. What do they mean? Do I
> > need to worry?
>
> You should worry, you were lucky it did boot at all [I get the same
> results on my 486!]. You probably compiled your kernel as a SMP
> kernel.
> To fix this, comment out the #define _SMP_ line in the main Makefile,
> and clean/recompile. You should do this, you will get a considerably
> smaller kernel anyway.
>
>
> --- I certainly don't want to do that! ;o) The machine is (now) a
> Quad PPro ...
>
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>
>
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> Brian

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