43606 – 8254 Timer not connected to IO-APIC

Bug 43606 - 8254 Timer not connected to IO-APIC

Summary: 8254 Timer not connected to IO-APIC

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers

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Reported:	2004-03-03 07:28 UTC by Jan Doornaert
Modified:	2004-03-21 11:35 UTC (History)
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Description Jan Doornaert 2004-03-03 07:28:05 UTC

When booting a Compaq Proliant 5400 (4x200MHz PPro) off a "install-x86-universal-2004.0.iso" created CD, and choosing "smp" as the kernel, I get the error "8254 Timer not connected to IO-APIC" and the boot process halts.
With the plain "gentoo" kernel, all is well...

Googling the 'net turns up quite a few links, but the "solutions" provided do not seem to be of much help here (e.g. recompile you kernel).

BTW: RedHat Enterprise 3 also fails (just hangs, no error message whatsoever) if one tries booting the smp kernel - single processor kernel boots/runs OK.

Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-21 11:35:13 UTC

looks like a kernel bug if redhat does not work either. contact the kernel devs