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

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Date:	Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:46:03 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Chris Samuel <chris@...muel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@...mail.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FW: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on
 quad Pentium Pro system

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Chris Samuel <chris@...muel.org> 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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