Re: 2.6.9-rc4 No local APIC present or hardware disabled

[Mikael Pettersson]

mobil@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > after upgrading to 2.6.9-rc4 I'm getting the following message in dmesg:
 > 
 > No local APIC present or hardware disabled
 > 
 > 2.6.9-rc3 and older kernels did not show this message. They showed:
 >  Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
 >  Found and enabled local APIC!
 > 
 > Any hints ?

Boot with "lapic" to force-enable the local APIC.

Automatically overriding the BIOS was considered a bug in
some quarters (mainly ACPI), so the code was changed to
require a kernel boot option to enable the override.

BIOSen suck.
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