Which gives intel plenty of time to fix their bios problems. Right
now the situation is we are seeing Pentium IV boxes reporting
invalid MP 1.4 specs and dying. Reporting an invalid MP spec and
booting single user at least ensures people can boot their boxes
while intel fixes their problems
I assume these things, even with busted MP tables will work under
Win2k as it will use ACPI tables instead (I'm assuming they are
available abd valid?).
What about NT4? If that can also use ACPI tables (I can't see how, it
predates ACPI I think) then it may well be Linux is the only thing
that stil uses MP tables and hence won't boot in such machines :(
--cw
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