Running on an Asus P2B-DS board with dual cpus present, the system hangs shortly after boot. The last few lines are: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021212 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0750, last bus=1 PCI Using configuration type 1 ACPI-0263: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15 A few seconds after that message, the system becomes unresponsive (can't even toggle numlock). After powering down the system, yanking the 2nd CPU, replacing the terminator, and trying again, the problem goes away. Specifying noapic or acpi=no, or combining the two doesn't help. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert install CD. 2. Boot. 3. Wait approx 5 seconds. Actual Results: System hangs. Expected Results: Boot successfully. System Configuration: Dual Pentium 400MHz (100MHz system bus) 512MB (4x128MB PC-100 DIMMs) Asus P2B-DS Motherboard, BIOS revision 1.05 ATI Mach64 based video card 3Com 3C905-B NIC Creative Vibra16 I've tried the system with a few other distros, and they work in SMP. Googled around, but didn't come up with any helpful results.
try with acpi=off (acpi=no is a mistake on cd) If that doesnt do it you can try the livecd www.gentoo.org/~livewire/livecd-x86-xfs-sources-2-24-2003.iso This is a uniprocessor cd, ill try to get a smp-enabled livecd up soon.
Using acpi=off fixes the problem
