On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 05:00:52PM -0400, Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn wrote:
> Kernel: 2.2.6 with SMP
> Memory: 128MB
> Disks: 9Gig local, 12Gig remote NFS from Irix 6.5.2 and locking on.
> knfsd: 981204-1
> 
> 	The machine dies so hard that the screen goes black and does
> NOTHING.  Nothing on the screen, no keyboard input is accepted, no network

Just a guess: Never try to have APM enabled in BIOS with SMP.

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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>           SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG
Linux kernel development;    SCSI driver: DC390 (tmscsim/AM53C974)
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