Problem booting from release cdrom in VirtualPC for Mac

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Fri Apr 8 09:57:47 PDT 2005


On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:39:21PM +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 4:32 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:10:25PM +0200, Raphael Marmier wrote:
> > > I get a panic while booting with the release cdrom I built from
> > > RELEASE_1_2 tonight, both in default and safe modes:
> > 
> > Do you have SMP options active and no APIC in your machine? That's still not
> > supported.
> > 
> > Joerg
> > 
> 
> Also if you have SMP and APIC defined but the machine doesn't have
> APIC on the chips you will get this type of error.

That's what I mean. The kernel contains the APIC option and that makes
an IO-APIC a requirement. It should run fine on uniprocessor machines
with IO-APIC (e.g. most AMD machines I think).

Joerg





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