Have you tried with noapic as an option to the kernel.
Steve
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Lawrence Lowe wrote:
> Steve, having tried again with the SMP kernel on a worker node, I now
> recall what the problem was. It wasn't really a problem with the
> +update.lilokernel line. But with the SMP kernel, I got kernel startup
> messages like "IRQ probe failed", and the kernel could not see /dev/hda at
> all.
>
> This time I used my /sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.BHAM method
> and included both smp and non-smp lines in /etc/lilo.conf.BHAM
> so I've been able to recover OK and reboot that worker into
> uni-processor mode, without starting from scratch, as I would have
> had to if I'd used the
> +update.lilokernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-6.2.12smp
> line in site-cfg, as of course that supports the one kernel at boot.
>
> Using a differently named lilo.conf avoids the problem of LCFG
> over-writing lilo.conf and running /sbin/lilo.
>
> Maybe I shouldn't be too surprised that 6.2 SMP kernel doesn't work
> on dual P4 Xeons, though! (7.3 SMP works fine on my non-grid nodes).
> Roll on 7.3!
>
> Lawrence.
>
>
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