Re: noapic strikes back

Doug Ledford (dledford@redhat.com)
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:46:48 -0400

Florin Andrei wrote:
>
> I have a SGI 1200 (L440GX+ motherboard, dual PIII) and i'm trying to
> install at least one version of Red Hat 7.1 on it.
> The problem is, while booting up the installer, when it comes to loading
> up the SCSI driver (AIC7xxx) the system is frozen.
>
> I tried the following boot disks:
> - stock Red Hat 7.1
> - Doug Ledford's updates from people.redhat.com
> - SGI XFS 1.0.1
>
> I tried to boot the installer with and without "noapic" option.

When using my boot disk, you have to use the "apic" option, not the "noapic"
option.

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 Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>  http://people.redhat.com/dledford
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