Re: A7M266-D, dual athlon 1800+ kernel-smp APIC boot problem workaround

[Alan Cox]

> We have an Asus A7M266-D motherboard with dual Athlon MP 1800+.
> We found the linux kernel-smp would seize shortly after or during booting
> the second CPU, at around the time it was testing APIC.

Yes - the MP 1.4 table seems to have funnies with the second IDE controller

> We found that booting with the "noapic" option in grub or lilo was
> sufficient to solve the problem.

Better yet set MP 1.1 in the BIOS - the MP1.1 table seems to work

> AMD and ASUS tech support had never heard of this problem.
> ASUS suggested it "might" be the BIOS.

AMD have heard of the problem. I've got it filed with them along with
	Won't boot with a broadcom card in
	Seems to misconfigure PCI compliance sometimes

and some other oddments. Support I suspect are not too used to it.

> BTW the Athlons, clearly marked in the boxes as MP, identified
> themselves as Athlon XP 1800+'s.   We thought this might be the
> problem at first but now we guess not.

The BIOS forgets to load the MP name string, like a load of other
problems it has. 

Alan