[CentOS] Sun Fire X4200 M2 / CentOS 5 APIC issues
Jack Bailey
jack at internetguy.netWed Jan 9 20:27:43 UTC 2008
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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
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