On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, J S Goldberg wrote: > I installed both 4.9 and 5.1 ok on my ASUS A7N8X (nvidia > chipset) with AMD 2500 cpu. After I cvsup'd to 5.2 a few > days ago, the kernel would no longer boot, hanging after: > > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec Configuring the APIC causes interrupt storms on the ASUS A7N8X[-E]. > Having seen other comments about nvidia and ACPI, I > tried booting the CD with acpi disabled - and it worked. Turning off ACPI helps by preventing configuration of the APIC. > So... the point of the post: > > 1. The observation of this ACPI problem (might be related > to others I've seen mentioned recently). > > 2. A request for a (cleaner) workaround to booting. E.g., > a way to disable acpi by default. Remove "device apic" from your config file or turn off acpi using the <mumble> environment variable. BruceReceived on Wed Dec 31 2003 - 22:41:25 UTC
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