5.2.1 Unbootable on my Hardware

[Arjan van Leeuwen]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 06:29, Jason wrote:
> Nick Nelson wrote:
(...)
> > I've recently tried to install 5.2.1 on a new system of mine,
> > basically it's an AMD 3000XP, Radeon9800 Pro, Corsair XMS RAM,
> > Lanparty Ultra II
> > (http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_I
> >D=1524) with a SerialATA (Marvell 88i8030 chip), I have one SerialATA
> > drive and one IDE drive.
> >
> > I've tried booting off both the SATA drive and the IDE drive, each
> > time it gets to:
(...)
>
> I have the same problem when acpi is on, I have to boot with option 2.
> I have an nforce2 board from epox.

This is an issue on all nForce2 boards. You can boot with ACPI by disabling 
APIC in the kernel. It has been like this since John's big APIC commit. 

I thought this was already fixed... Does anyone know why enabling APIC causes 
the nForce2 not to boot?

Arjan
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