In article <449AF0F5.8090105@flame.org>,
	M Graff <explorer@flame.org> writes:
> I have this older Tyan based motherboard (I think...) with two AMD CPUs
> on it.  About six months ago it started detecting more than two CPUs on
> the machine.  This caused a crash at boot when these phantom CPUs were
> configured.

It looks like a broken ACPI BIOS to me. Did you try a kernel with only
MPBIOS and without your hack? If that helps you could try upgrading
the BIOS of that motherboard.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/