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From: Andrew Erickson <andy@emji.net>
Subject: nmi watchdog and netfinity lockups.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:19:23 -0400
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Have been having apparently random lockups on an ibm netfinity 7100. The 
only messages generated have been the following in dmesg.

..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...  failed.
...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.


added the following:

append = "nmi_watchdog=0"

 to the lilo.conf file and the lockups seemed to have subsided. 17 days up! 
woo-hoo. Anyway just curious about the wierd science behing this problem 
and if I can expect it to go away completely.

BTW kernel version 2.4.18 and please reply off list as I am not subscribed. 
Thanks for any help. Andy

andy erickson, emji
919-545-2539
andy@emji.net