From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751294AbWH1Ija (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751295AbWH1Ija (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:39:30 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:30425 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751294AbWH1Ij3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:39:29 -0400 Subject: Re: linux on Intel D915GOM oops From: Arjan van de Ven To: Henti Smith Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060828102149.26b05e8b@yoda.foad.za.net> References: <20060828102149.26b05e8b@yoda.foad.za.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:39:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1156754346.3034.167.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:21 +0200, Henti Smith wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been given a mecer Xhibitor media center machine to try and get > linux on for testing. > > The machine seems pretty much limited to South Africa, however the > setup is used by other companies like > http://www.higrade.com/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=3539 and > http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/DHS_2/dhs_2_features.aspx?SysCode=PC-DHS2&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT > which use the same mainboard atc. > > for more information ont he mainboard used: > http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/om/om_documentation.htm > > I've tried to boot just about every linux distro I can get my hands on > and they all oops at bootup. > > Unfortunately I cannot get to the first few lines (screen cannot scroll > after oops) > but here is what I can get to : This is booting with Ubuntu > > PREEMPT > Modules linked in: > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0060:[] not tainted > EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.8.1-3-386) > EIP is at 0xc00f02fa > eax: 49435024 ebx: 00007000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000010 > esi: 00000001 edi: c02cd4a4 > [] bios32_service+0x1c/0x68 > [] check_pcibios+0x10/0xd3 > [] pci_find_bios+0x70/0x8c this is the known bug where by default Linux uses the BIOS services for PCI rather than the native method. try putting pci=conf2 on the kerenl commandline (and you may want to try a kernel newer than 2.6.8 btw) -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com