Re: Panic at boot time

From: Ian Freislich <if_at_hetzner.co.za>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:29:55 +0200
John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:42 pm, Ian Freislich wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've been getting this panic at boot time for last few weeks.  The
> > last kernel that works is of around Wed Jan  7 15:23:38 SAST 2004.
> >
> > Random datapoints:
> >    Gigabyte 686DLX motherboard with 2 PentiumII CPUs
> >    I've noticed that ACPI has been working more and more poorly
> >       with this motherboard.
> >    I think this is related to ACPI brokenness because the working
> >    kernel panics in exactly the same way if I set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1".
> 
> That means your working kernel doesn't work if ACPI is disabled which is what
> you are seeing here.  Can you try kernels without SMP and see if ACPI 
> and !ACPI both work?

Yes, UP kernels work with and without ACPI.  So ACPI is broken for
SMP (on this particular board)?

The interesting thing is that for UP ACPI works correctly - I get
S1-S5 and cpu throttling etc.

--
Ian Freislich
Received on Sat Jan 31 2004 - 05:29:58 UTC

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