From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:58:43 -0800 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] SMP on dual Dore Duo Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ff4e52a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 on a dual-core Core Duo (aka Centrino Duo) laptop (HP dv8000), booting a cpu kernel either crashes on start up or very soon after with a slight user load if smp is enabled; without smp it works normally. i think it may be the same problem Dan reported a while back: http://9fans.net/archive/2009/06/45 i don't know if sata is a red herring. this is a recent kernel build (last 3 weeks) and although it has two drives they are not touched (contain Widows partitions); it pxeloads and boots from a kenfs. ideas? -Skip