2008/11/17 Alan Burkes <firstakir@xxxxxxxxx>: >> The first thing I suggest you try is to hit the space bar as Haiku >> starts to boot (Before the boot screen appears). > > This is probibly the best advice ever. All I needed to do was disable > SMP, and it would /nearly/ finish booting. The Terminal app and the > desktop showed up, and then I was sent to Kernal Debugging Land. It > > And to the kernel developers out there; good luck with SMP support. > You'll need it. :( Ok, my machine boots with SMP working so we need to delve a bit more into your specific circumstances. Here is the start of my syslog KERN: APM version 1.2 available, flags 7. KERN: smp: using ACPI to detect MP configuration KERN: smp: local apic address is 0xfee00000 KERN: smp: found local APIC with id 0 KERN: smp: found local APIC with id 1 KERN: smp: found io APIC with id 2 and address 0xfec00000 So ACPI was used to detect 2 processors. Then once my machine had booted the following System Information was available from sysinfo Kernel name: kernel_x86 built on: Nov 16 2008 11:19:25 version 0x1 2 AMD Athlon 64, revision 8fb1 running at 2210MHz (ID: 0x00000000 0x00000000) CPU #0: "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+" Type 0, family 15, model 11, stepping 1, features 0x178bfbff FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CFLUSH MMX FXSTR SSE SSE2 HTT Extended Intel: 0x00000001 SSE3 Extended AMD: type 0, family 15, model 11, stepping 1, features 0xe3d3fbff SCE NX AMD-MMX FFXSTR 64 3DNow+ 3DNow! Power Management Features: TS FID VID TTP Inst TLB: 2M/4M-byte pages, 8 entries, fully associative Data TLB: 2M/4M-byte pages, 8 entries, fully associative Inst TLB: 4K-byte pages, 32 entries, fully associative Data TLB: 4K-byte pages, 32 entries, fully associative L1 inst cache: 64 KB, 2-way set associative, 1 lines/tag, 64 bytes/line L1 data cache: 64 KB, 2-way set associative, 1 lines/tag, 64 bytes/line L2 cache: 512 KB, 16-way set associative, 1 lines/tag, 64 bytes/line CPU #1: "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+" Type 0, family 15, model 11, stepping 1, features 0x178bfbff FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CFLUSH MMX FXSTR SSE SSE2 HTT Extended Intel: 0x00000001 SSE3 Extended AMD: type 0, family 15, model 11, stepping 1, features 0xe3d3fbff SCE NX AMD-MMX FFXSTR 64 3DNow+ 3DNow! Power Management Features: TS FID VID TTP Inst TLB: 2M/4M-byte pages, 8 entries, fully associative Data TLB: 2M/4M-byte pages, 8 entries, fully associative Inst TLB: 4K-byte pages, 32 entries, fully associative Data TLB: 4K-byte pages, 32 entries, fully associative L1 inst cache: 64 KB, 2-way set associative, 1 lines/tag, 64 bytes/line L1 data cache: 64 KB, 2-way set associative, 1 lines/tag, 64 bytes/line L2 cache: 512 KB, 16-way set associative, 1 lines/tag, 64 bytes/line 2010824704 bytes free (used/max 135479296 / 2146304000) (cached 23646208) 129594 semaphores free (used/max 1478 / 131072) 3964 ports free (used/max 132 / 4096) 3963 threads free (used/max 133 / 4096) 2029 teams free (used/max 19 / 2048) So I successfully booted a 2 cpu machine with a similar CPU type (AMD 64 X2) to yours. Considering the issues mentioned with the flash drive denying writes. I would look at the USB controller, what options are in your motherboard BIOS regarding USB? -- Cheers David