Re: Dual Celeron BP6 boards aren't stable in linux without MPS 1.4 set

roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:22:06 +0000


On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:37:47AM -0800, Peter Bell wrote:
> this has been my experience.......a friend of mine had problems in BeOS
> till he switched the MPS (multi processor specification) to 1.4 ...... try
> it out... I kept getting solid crashes in linux... I tested win2k to see
> if it was just linux, but nope it wasn't.... after switching it to 1.4 its
> been solid.

sa friend of mine reported this as well with his BP6 and I switched mine to
1.4 without testing it.

however, dmesg reports :

Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1

(shouldn't that be v1.4 ?)

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