[LinuxBIOS] Kernel lock-ups??

[joe at smittys.pointclark.net]

Quoting Rudolf Marek <r.marek at assembler.cz>:

> you need to supply some routing table to kernel. Any of following:
>
> in DSDT
> PIR table
> MP Table.
>
> There is some util to dump this table friom original bios, although in
> my case MP table was totally b0rked.
>
> I think for a start you may switch off the acpi=off
>
> Rudolf

I have HAVE_PIRQ_TABLE=1 and irq_tables.c.
What is the utility for the MP table?

Anyways I tried these kernel options acpi=off irqpoll lpj=720896
and it gets a little further. Now it locks-up on this line:

Checking 'hlt' instruction...

Any ideas?

Thanks - Joe