Bug 6954 – Asus CUV4X-D Mainboard boot problems

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2002-08-23 18:12:54 UTC]

Got a CUV4X-D that won't boot up?  Freezes during various stages of kernel loading and hardware 
detection?

Well, I did too.  Did some digging and found:
<a 
href="http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jkoeke_cuv4x.html" 
target="_blank">http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jkoeke_cuv4x.html</a>

(Quoting 
from that SuSe list..):
<blockquote>
Symptom: During the installation process of SuSE 
Linux on an ASUS CUV4X-D or CUV4X-DLS the installation stops with a kernel panic or an APIC error 
message. 

Cause: A bug in the BIOS of this mainboard  (My note: This issue occurs in the 1016 
revision)

Solution:

Disable MPS 1.4 (multi-processor-system) in the BIOS or switch this 
function to 1.1.
By using this option you just switch the MPS version. The Multi-Processor-
System will still work properly.
Start SuSE Linux with the following boot option:

linux 
noapic

Start YaST as user root and select:

System Administration
Kernel and boot 
configuration
LILO configuration


Please enter in the append row (if there are already 
entries in the append row press space after the last entry before typing the 
following):

noapic

Now you can exit YaSt.
</blockquote>
(End Quote)

What I had 
to do is, disable MPS 1.4 support in the bios (Boot section).  No boot parameters were 
necessary.

*hth

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-08-23 18:16:12 UTC]

Sherman, Colin:

With this kind of problem/work-around, we might benefit from having it either in
the FAQ or somewhere on the site dedicated to these kinds of things (note the
nvidia drivers on an amd machine, you need to pass mem=nopentium in lilo/grub;
type info qualifies).

Colin, thoughts?

[Comment 2 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2002-09-10 17:41:56 UTC]

If not the FAQ, then definately the desktop guide.

//ZhEN

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2002-09-12 12:04:52 UTC]

it's a very good idea to Disable MPS 1.4.
there are many known problems with it.

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2002-10-08 21:18:31 UTC]

Fixed this, and it is in CVS.

//ZhEN