[CentOS] Sun Fire X4200 M2 / CentOS 5 APIC issues

[Jack Bailey]

Ryan Ordway wrote:
> I had been running CentOS 5 happily on my Sun Fire X4200 M2 systems,
> then I upgraded the BIOS and iLOM firmware. Now I'm running into what
> seems to be a fairly common problem with newer motherboards. I cannot
> boot unless I use the 'noapic' kernel option. If I try to boot the
> kernel normally, I get the error:
>
> "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC"
>
> I can boot using noapic, but interrupts are *HORRIBLE* with noapic on
> the X4200 M2. Here is a system with the new BIOS running with noapic: 

What firmware version is it?  I'm running on the version from the 
FW12201_BIOS61600_4100M213.iso disk on Sun's web site and don't see that 
error when booting.

Jack