I got this from the kernel 2.4.21: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs Setting 1 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 1 ... ok. init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 1-5, 1-7, 1-10, 1-11 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 number of MP IRQ sources: 23. number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 24. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #1...... .... register #00: 01000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 01 ....... : Delivery Type: 0 ....... : LTS : 0 .... register #01: 00178020 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : PRQ implemented: 1 ....... : IO APIC version: 0020 .... register #02: 00178020 ....... : arbitration: 00 An unexpected IO-APIC was found. If this kernel release is less than three months old please report this to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org