I have an Asus X71SL with an Intel Dual Core T3200 processor. Any kernel version after 2.6.35-rc2 won't boot up on my machine without the nolapic kernel parameter at bootup. I have already reported this as a bug, but this is the only thing keeping me from updating to 10.10 or 11.04 when it'll be released.
Should I just use the nolapic parameter as a default and move on (and in the meantime try to resolve the bug) or is there a big performance/other trade-off?
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I don't think there are any limitations under that mode. All It will do Is make one of your processors work, not all of them. Basically, with
nolapicit just uses one processor than the number installed.