Sco Linux 4 issue - SOLVED

[Jack Berger]

Suse 7.x has the same problem. It's due to Yast2 seeing Pentium 4 as an SMP
installation.

  http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_noapic.html
  http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/disableapic.html
  http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/swiegra_delldimension8100.html

I recall seeing something about windows having a similar problem w/CPUID issues.

-jhb-

From: Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com>

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:10:31AM +0100, Coppernix wrote:
>>I'm so sorry. I didn't read all messages (I am in late
>>with all these mails).
>>Thanks to Jim Bonnet.
>>The option "acpi=off" on the grub's line is The
>>solution.
>
>I ran into this problem installing SuSE 8.1 on an HP Visualize P-CLASS box
>with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI host adapter.  Strangely enough installing SCO
>Linux 4.0 on this same machine worked without a problem, and the only way I
>could boot SuSE was using the SCO kernel out of grub telling it mount a
>different partition.

Bill