> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:07:47PM +0100, Allan Sandfeld wrote:
> > Hi, I just want to share some of my stupidity and my experience with it with
> > you.
> > I recently had the misfortune to try to put two celerons on an SMP-board. The
> > bios correctly ignored the second cpu, but the linux-kernel(2.4.17). Would
> > boot almost normally then emit two APIC-errors to the console(error 2 and
> > 6?), and shortly after freeze completely.
<snip>
>
> Actually, with the correct adapters, celerons can be made SMP safe.
>
> I would immagine that it is hard to detect if there is a adapter operating
> correctly from the APIC code...
Only have to agree with Mike here. I made the hardware mod to two
slot-A celerons and haven't had any trouble at all from the machine.
If this is 'fixed', hopefully a command-line override will be added!
Mark
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