Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Hi,
on a recent intel quad-core (core2) CPU, CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP=y is needed to boot with more than 8 cpu. Without it, booting stops after CPU detection. Booting works when setting maxcpus=8 as boot parameter (but, obviously, you are then limited to 8 cores). Quadri Quad-core systems becomes more and more widespread these days (think virtualization), making x86 machines with more than 8 CPUs more common. Debian (be it Etch or Lenny) won't work on them. Please, enable this option, so that debian can be used for a high-end virtualization system without recompiling ! Backporting this to Etch as well seems mostly harmless to me, but I'll let a kernel guru check ;) Cheers, Clément Hermann (nodens) -- (Irrelevant) System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
