devel kernel wont boot

Matthew Bader (voodoovw@iglou.com)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 11:32:33 -0400 (EDT)

I just joined the list to see if I could get some help with getting a
recent devel kernel to boot on my system. I have a Tyan Tomcat III S1563S
board. It is a single CPU board, but there is a versin of it that can
accept two. When I try to boot 2.1.125 or 124 (these are the only ones
I've tried) it hangs. Here are the kernel messages that I can see, before
this it scrolls by to fast..

Total of 2 processors enabled
enabling symmetric IO mode
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO-APIC IRQs
IO-APIC pin 0
..... here lots of numbers listed ........
not connected
MP-BIOS bug 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
..trying to set up timer as ExtINT ..... (found Pin 0) ... failed
..trying to set up timer as BP IRQ...failed
Kernel panic: IO-APIC timer doesn't work!
In swapper task - no syncing

(hangs here)

In the mailing list archive I found some stuff about IO-APIC timers and
some patches. My question is is there a current patch or workaround for
this, and if so does it also fix the detection of 2 CPUs when I only have
one? Or is my board screwed?

thanks
Matt

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