On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:42:56AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:20, Joe wrote: > > >>Is it a "defect" that requires the noapic option? > >> > >> > > I think so. I don't believe a mere absence of a feature should stop a > > kernel booting, particularly a Knoppix one. I think it must be a > > hardware bug. > > > > In fact a quick Google on 'k7s8x noapic bios' suggests that upgrading > > to version 2.30 of the BIOS will fix it. I'm still not sure I'll > > bother, I had a bad experience flashing a BIOS a few years ago. > > It sounds dodgy to me too. Am I losing out on anything by just using > "noapic"? A quick Google on 'k7s8x noapic bios' returns this thread as the first result :-) I've got one of these MBs with an Athlon 2600 in it and I fixed the problem with a BIOS upgrade which I'm pretty sure was this one: http://www.ocworkbench.com/2003/asrock/k7s8x/bios/K7S8X226.zip It was not a dodgy experience apart from needing to boot DOS :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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