I am trying to set up a nice little dual-boot configuration on my computer between Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), but I keep running into headaches. The system configuration is as follows:
Asus M2N32 SLI-Deluxe Wireless Edition
Athlon X2 4600+
2gb Corsair XMS2
GeForce 7900GTX
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 (I love the emu10k1 compatibility in Linux)
Immediately upon bootup of the Ubuntu Dapper Drake LiveCD, I am faced with a kernel panic and the error message:
MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO APIC
I looked for the error on Google, and it appears that a lot of older SMP motherboards had the same problem years ago. I can make the system boot by supplying the kernel arguments "noapic" and "nolapic," but the system only sees one of the two cores that way. Also, when running the closed-source NVidia drivers, the system has about a 50% chance of hard-freezing when you switch from X to a system console (using Ctrl-Alt-Fkey). I don't know if those freezes have anything to do with the APIC issue, but my intuition tells me it probably does.
I flashed the bios to 0903 (latest version as of the time of this writing) in an attempt to fix it, but I get the exact same error as when I was running 0603.
Does anyone have any suggestions on things I could try to fix it?
Asus M2N32 SLI-Deluxe Wireless Edition
Athlon X2 4600+
2gb Corsair XMS2
GeForce 7900GTX
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 (I love the emu10k1 compatibility in Linux)
Immediately upon bootup of the Ubuntu Dapper Drake LiveCD, I am faced with a kernel panic and the error message:
MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO APIC
I looked for the error on Google, and it appears that a lot of older SMP motherboards had the same problem years ago. I can make the system boot by supplying the kernel arguments "noapic" and "nolapic," but the system only sees one of the two cores that way. Also, when running the closed-source NVidia drivers, the system has about a 50% chance of hard-freezing when you switch from X to a system console (using Ctrl-Alt-Fkey). I don't know if those freezes have anything to do with the APIC issue, but my intuition tells me it probably does.
I flashed the bios to 0903 (latest version as of the time of this writing) in an attempt to fix it, but I get the exact same error as when I was running 0603.
Does anyone have any suggestions on things I could try to fix it?
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