Re: Linux-2.6.1-mm4/5 dies booting on an Athlon64

[Hanspeter Kunz <hkunz@ifi.unizh.ch>]

Just an idea: I had similar problems in 2.6.1-mm4.
I had to disable PNP bios support.

cheers,
Hp.

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 11:48, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Boszormenyi Zoltan writes:
> >  > Hi,
> >  > 
> >  > mainboard is MSI K8T Neo, Athlon64 3200+.
> >  > It does not boot successfully without the "nolapic"
> >  > option. "noapic" does not make any difference, "nolapic" does.
> >  > Kernel is compiled on a 32bit Fedora,
> >  > K7/Athlon and Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64
> >  > are selected under CPU support.
> > 
> > 1. "does not boot successfully" is extremely vague.
> >    Please supply a boot log or decoded kernel oops.
> 
> Uncompressing kernel... and then nothing. Even the screen is emptied,
> cursor blinks in column 0 of line approx. 8, at about 1/3 of the screen.
> 
> > 2. Does this also occur with 2.6.1 or 2.6.2-rc1?
> >    If so, what was the last standard 2.6 kernel that worked?
> > 3. Does 2.4.25-pre6 work?
> 
> I will try these. FC1 2.4.22-2149 definitely works.
> 
> > 4. Try a minimal .config w/o any non-essential features.
> >    (Where non-essential mean anything not needed to boot
> >    and get to a login prompt.)
> 
> OK.
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