When I try to boot the 2004.1 LiveCD the bootkernel freezes after trying to initialise the APIC. The last lines being displayed are: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1733.439 MHz processor ... POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX enabled ExtInt on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 0000002 Then the kernel hangs. The same happens when trying to boot with 'gentoo noapic'. This bug, which has also been in RedHad 8, Debian Woody and other distro's, was fixed by them by no longer compiling APIC support into their bootkernel. This problem is typical for the ECS K7VMM motherboard, on other boards with the APIC problem, booting with the 'noapic' option solves the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the 2004.1 LiveCD with or without the 'noapic' option on an ECS K7VMM mobo 2. The bootkernel freezes. Actual Results: The bootkernel froze. Expected Results: The bootprocess should have continued. Computer configuration: ECS K7VMM motherboard with VIA 8233 chipset AMD Athlon XP 2100+ CPU 256 MB DDR-RAM
I think instead of of kicking support out of the kernel, we should make a note about that so people who are experiencing this bug can disable it if needed.
that won't solve the problem, I think one can't disable APIC-support for the 2004.1 LiveCD's kernel, because this kernel is a precompiled one the only way to fix this bug is by kicking APIC-support out of the precompiled LiveCD kernel
ill second this, either make a isolinux tagline for disabling apic, or yank it out of the kernel like previous livecds.
