Luke said: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Mike Jakubik wrote: >> >> I have booted the install in safe mode, and completed another install. >> Same problem. The machine has 1GB of RAM. I will try downloading a >> 4.10 CD and installing that. Another thing i noticed which may or may >> not be related is this error message (the machine is a single cpu >> athlon): >> >> mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: <ASCII smiley face> >> >> Thanks. > > I had that exact same error and behavior with 5.2.1 back in March. I > had to disable SMP and APIC in the kernel in order to boot the machine. > The "boot without APIC" on the startup menu worked until I was able to > build a custom kernel. > > Something in the SMP code just could not get along with the motherboard > on that machine. Considering the age, condition, and technological > oddness of the motherboard, I can't really blame the code for my problem > however. > This is not the same problem, i do not get to that stage of the boot. The install CD boots fine. I think you mean ACPI.Received on Tue Oct 12 2004 - 01:10:59 UTC
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