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The boot process has an error at:

Freeing SMP alternative memory

and then hangs while boooting a notebook with Intel Celeron dual core and Linux.

What is SMP and what role does it have while booting a computer?

The problem is that the computer is unable to boot because of the above mentioned error in spite of a complete memtest done with no errors.

I was curious to know about this error and its significance at the boot process.

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I'm running an IBM T500 laptop and it stopped during bootup init

Freeing SMP alternatives memory process:

I found that a BIOS change to the Intel Management Engine solved this issue.

  1. boot to BIOS config, then CPU, then Intel AMD & toggle the enable/disable setting, save settings reboot
  2. When BIOS is doing its self check it will ask do you to unconfigure ME? Enter Y, BIOS will now update (insert magic here)

If there are any caveats to this process, reply

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