Re: 2.6.18.3 SMP PREEMPT crashes (x86-64)

[Bart Trojanowski]

Prakash Punnoor <prakash <at> punnoor.de> writes:
> Does your bios have the option to enable the hpet? (Maybe after a bios 
> update?)

It does not.

> If not:
> 
> Try booting with noapic, compile latest git kernel and buut it (w/o noapic). 
> Above message should now not appear, if I am not mistaken. Otherwise you have 
> to hack the kernel to not ignoge the timer override..

Worked as advertised.  I booted with noapic maxcpus=1 and rebuilt the git repo.
 Rebooted and ran through the same kind of stress tests.  Seems to work.

Thanks a lot.



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