Re: Boot issues with a Dell Inspiron 530 and 8.0 RC1

From: Christian Schmidt <schmidt_chr_at_gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:35:11 +0200
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:12, Christian Schmidt <schmidt_chr_at_gmx.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 07:21, john hood <jh_at_sandstorm.net> wrote:
>> Christian Schmidt wrote:
> [...]
>>> I am seeing a strange issue with my Dell Inspiron 530 with 8.0 RC1-p1
>>> at around 50-75% percent of all boots. It all boils down to GENERIC
>>> throwing the following:
>>>
>>> AP #1 (PHY #1) failed!
>>> panic y/n? [y] panic: bye-bye
>>> cpuid = 0
> [...]
>> We have 3 of these machines.
>>
>> In my experience, keyboard activity triggers the problem.  If I boot the
>> machine without any keyboard presses/releases between the time the loader
>> starts the kernel and some time later, definitely by the time the USB
>> keyboard driver attaches, then I don't get this problem.  This includes any
>> key-up (and maybe key repeat) events you may generate after typing a key at
>> the boot menu, or after typing enter at the OK prompt, or pressing a key to
>> bypass the autoboot timeout that counts down by seconds.
>>
>> If you let the machine start from cold without touching the keyboard, what
>> happens?
>
> That is a very interesting point you are making. Indeed, it never
> occured to me that I am usually hammering down on F1 and 1 to boot
> faster (yeah yeah, I know ;-)). I let the machine boot through without
> that a couple of times and it seemed to have worked for about a 100%
> of those cases. I will keep testing but I think we have a hot
> contender. :-)
>

Okay, after testing that for a couple of days I can confirm that it
never-ever happens when I leave the keyboard alone during the
boot-phase. As a workaround, I can live with not touching the
keyboard. Nethertheless, this seems to be a bug that deserves fixing,
isn't it?

Thank you for your help. :-)
Christian
Received on Thu Oct 15 2009 - 07:35:33 UTC

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