SMP system not running SMP

[Peter Seebach]

In message <E1FvAdA-0001wR-Qn at dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>, Pete French writes
:
>That would be good to have if you do. I am not sure it will help, as
>the other Peter who is having the same problem is running a completely
>different make of motherboard, but I am happy to give it a try.

Yeah.  What's curious, to me, is that this is apparently widespread.

I think my next option is to boot with acpi, but with everything I can
possibly disable disabled.

-s