[wellylug] AMD64 & Linux

[Pete Black]

try booting the kernel with the options: noapic nolapic acpi=off

Some or all of these should disable the problematic features.

you can add these by appending them in the grub config file, or hit esc 
or whatever to get to grub console on boot, and manually edit the kernel 
line - just add the options to the end.

LILO config would be similar.

Let me know if you need more specific help

-Pete

>Can anyone recommend a decent distro that will run on my new AMD64 I am
>having hell with RH EL, the board is nForce3 based and once RHEL has
>loaded the nForce3 Driver the machine freezes, unless I disable APIC in
>the BIOS, however if I disable APIC in the BIOS WinXP refuses to boot,
>so I am thinking of ditching RHEL unless anyone knows a way round the
>APIC problem
>
>And no I cant ditch WinXP, as I need it to run various software
>
>Cheers
>
>Geraint
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