Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Serious problem with new kernel?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >The "work-around" seems to be to turn off the kernel option:
> >CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC   "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
> >
> >So I ran "make menuconfig" in tmp/linux-2.4.21, turned it off, then:
> >cd ../../scripts/
> >./build.sh build opt=linux
> >./build.sh install opt=linux
> >cd ..
> >rm tmp/.done_iso_100_build-iso
> >make iso
> >
> >and now VMware-4 boots fine from my ISO image.  :-)
> >
> >CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC appears in the files:
> >scripts/config/config_linux.up  (and .smp)
> >
> >Should someone upload a "fix"?
> 
> Is there a patch available?

All I've found is a "-ac1" patch.  I don't know if this fixes it or not.
Would you like me to try it?

Otherwise I would REALLY like to turn off CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC in
scripts/config/config_linux.up so I can develop without having to burn
CD's and boot them on a real PC.  IMO this is a better option than
running the first Alan Cox pre-release anyway, since there may be new
problems introduced in -ac1.

(I can't go back to VMware 3 because I already updated my virtual hard
drives to version 4 for the Windows stuff I need to run)

 - BS