Hello ,

While installing linux fedora core 5 or ubuntu linux on a personal computer i am getting a kernel panic after initializing the l1 , l2 caches and cpu as follows,
..timer : vector = 0x31 apic1 = 0 pin1 +- = 0 apic2 = -1 pin2 +- = -1
MP-BIOS BUG : 8254 timer not initialized to io-apic