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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Rajendra <rpm@solidcore.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem booting SMP kernel !
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:20:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099916407.3577.12.camel@laptop.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003401c4c55b$168ece50$6f52a8c0@rpm>

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 14:20 +0800, Rajendra wrote:
> Hi ,
>    I have been trying to boot an SMP kernel (2.4.20 redhat) on my laptop

RH has no 2.4.20 in production anymore; sounds like you're using an
oldie

> (Dell Inspiron 5160) without any success.
> It has hyper-threaded processor (Pentium IV 3.0 GHz - HT). 2.6.5 kernel is
> booting fine and is able to detect the
> Hyperthreading and initilize it and I can see two processors in my
> /proc/cpuinfo with 2.6.5 booted up.

sounds like you should use the 2.6 kernel; it could well be an ACPI
related issue (eg lack of acpi :)



      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-08 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-08  6:20 problem booting SMP kernel ! Rajendra
2004-11-08 12:20 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]

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