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Subject: Re: Code: Bad EIP value
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 19:14, l.scheelings wrote:
> EIP: 0050:[<00008865>] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010046
> eax: 0005301 ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
> esi: 00008136 edi: 00000296 ebp: 67890000 esp: c8ae7dd0
> ds:  0058 es: 000 ss: 0018
> Process halt cpid: 2559, stackpage+ c8ae70000
> stack: 02968df  81360000 00000000
>           0000000 00000000  81250058
>           c01148dd 00000010
> 
> call Trace : [<c01148dd>] [<c0110000>]
> 
> Code: Bad EIP value

It crashed in the BIOS code. A lot of old K6 boxes have bioses where the
32bit power down function Linux normally uses is buggy. Building a
kernel with the apm real mode power down option might work better.