[...] Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ACPI: Core revision 20070126 CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350 stepping 02 Booting processor 1/1 ip 4000 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4219.25 BogoMIPS (lpj=8438510) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 1(2) -> Core 1 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1. CPU1: AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350 stepping 02 Total of 2 processors activated (8442.63 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed. ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed. ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(. Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the 'noapic' option