Re: FW: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" onquad Pentium Pro system

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Chris Samuel <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:16:22 AM Chris Samuel wrote:
>
>> A fuller kernel does proceed further than before, before running
>> into issues where both the e100 and aix7xxx drivers complain about
>> not being able to find their IRQ's and that this might be due to
>> a buggy MP table.
>
> Booting with noapic nolapic removes the IRQ warning but the
> system still times out trying to mount the root filesystem and
> reboots itself.

You may need to your .config to have
CONFIG_SMP
CONFIG_PCI
CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE
set to use mptable from BIOS.

Thanks

Yinghai
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