MP-BIOS BUG

[Andrey Vul]

If you don't need APIC, append noapic to the kernel parameters. I have
done this on my Acer 5024WLMi laptop and now it never crashes.

On 5/7/07, Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:
> On boot up, I always get the following error message:
>
> MP-BIOS BUG: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>
> To date this has not been a problem, but when I attempted to install the
> driver for my Logitech Quickcam Messenger using ./quickcam.sh, all
> appeared to go well except for a failure reported during the final
> build.  Here's the excerpt:
>
> [  126.533289] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> [  126.533467] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> [  126.573185] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> [  126.573225] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
> failed.
>
> Has anyone any ideas how to fix this MP-BIOS bug?  Should I amend
> boot/grub/menu.lst to get a noapic boot? If so, how do I do this?  Or
> perhaps I should just invest in some new non-HP hardware! :-(  :-(  :-(
>
> Many thanks in advance,  Maurice
>
> PS I also have found the following start up error.  How serious would
> this be, or can I just ignore it as it doesn't show prior to grub loading?
>
> [    0.142327] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00.0
>
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Andrey Vul