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linux-source-2.6.20 package

  1. Bug #91279
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 91279

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JustInterested (mc-public) wrote :

I too am getting this bug on 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 Alpha . I also get it on other Live distros but not with BlueWhite 64 and 64Studio, so figure.

Cristian's comment above about Hyper Threading worked for me! I found that DISABLING the "HPET Support" option in the BIOS (Gigabyte board, specs to follow) enabled 8.04 to boot without the error and I see from the messages that both my cores are activated (unlike when using noapic).

Specs are:
AMD X2 5200+
Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 (Rev 1.1) with BIOS F10 (latest as at 13/12/2007) nforce 550 chipset
4G 800 RAM
nVidia 7300 GS

I'm going to try some other Live distros (Mint 4 and TrueBSD) just to check that they can load without any boot options as these had issue before.

Thanks Christian!! Now I just need to see what enabling/disabling HPET Support does....