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by zackelan 3232 days ago
CPUs with hyperthreading typically allow you to disable it in the BIOS. If you're running a new, beta-ish CPU microarchitecture (such as Ryzen/Threadripper) you might wish to disable HT as part of troubleshooting a CPU freeze/hang.

Changing a single CPU-related flag in the BIOS should under no circumstances render a filesystem unmountable.