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

DISCUSSION Boszormenyi Zoltan 2 participants 2 messages Jan 22, 2004

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Hi,

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Quoted 8 lines · Boszormenyi Zoltan

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.

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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.

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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.

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

cheers,
Hp.

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Hi,

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Quoted 8 lines · Boszormenyi Zoltan

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.

Quoted 2 lines

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.

Quoted 3 lines

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.

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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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