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. :-) ChristianReceived on Thu Oct 15 2009 - 07:35:33 UTC
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