2.5.56 won't boot (but 2.5.53 will)

DISCUSSION David Brownell 1 participant 3 messages Jan 11, 2003 – Jan 14, 2003

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David Brownell

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2003-01-11 20:15 UTC #0 lore raw

So 2.5 is newly an obstacle on the machines I use for development and testing. There's the Cardbus issue (appeared in 2.5.53 as far as I can tell) ... then there's this one (appeared in 2.5.54) which I haven't seen posted before.

Symptom: system hangs during boot, right where it's shown in the annotated log below. On 2.5.56 I also tried after disabling SMP and all the local APIC stuff in the build, but it didn't matter. These are otherwise the same .config setups, modulo whatever magic "make oldconfig" did.

In case it matters, this is kt333-based with a vt8235 south bridge. It's never shown this type of boot problem before.

Suggestions, or patches?

- Dave

Linux version 2.5.53 (root@helium) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #10 SMP Fri Jan 3 11:47:10 PST 2003 Video mode to be used for restore is f00
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
512MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f50e0
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice.

	right here is where 2.5.56 (and 2.5.54) stops booting:
	before messages about zone allocations.  Alt-SysRQ-B works.

On node 0 totalpages: 131072
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126976 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda9 nmi_watchdog=1
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1532.634 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3014.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515688k/524288k available (1508k kernel code, 7864k reserved, 725k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)

David Brownell

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2003-01-12 23:11 UTC #1 lore raw

Given all the flamage about GOTO, I thought maybe someone might prefer to actually help resolve a problem ... so, I'm resending!

Quoted 54 lines

Symptom: system hangs during boot, right where it's shown in the annotated log below. On 2.5.56 I also tried after disabling SMP and all the local APIC stuff in the build, but it didn't matter. These are otherwise the same .config setups, modulo whatever magic "make oldconfig" did.
In case it matters, this is kt333-based with a vt8235 south bridge. It's never shown this type of boot problem before.
Suggestions, or patches?
- Dave
Linux version 2.5.53 (root@helium) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #10 SMP Fri Jan 3 11:47:10 PST 2003 Video mode to be used for restore is f00
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
512MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f50e0
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice.
right here is where 2.5.56 (and 2.5.54) stops booting:
before messages about zone allocations. Alt-SysRQ-B works.
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126976 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda9 nmi_watchdog=1
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1532.634 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3014.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515688k/524288k available (1508k kernel code, 7864k reserved, 725k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)

David Brownell

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2003-01-14 19:01 UTC #2 lore raw

In reply to David Brownell

Update: this problem is still in 2.5.57 and 2.5.58 kernels.

But I have some more info. At least with 2.5.58, the system seems actually to be booting ... the problem is that the console output (permedia2, of course without pm2fb) doesn't work any more. The machine remains just as unusable (for most of my purposes) as if it actually weren't booting.

That is, I can "ssh" into the machine. Or even type at the console, log in, "startx" ... X11 comes up and is usable, but if I exit and try to use the console normally it's completely hopeless. Input, but no output.

The particular location of the "console isn't working any more" problem seems likely to be the precise point where the console would have to scroll the text that's already been printed during boot (starting from Grub).

Got any suggestions about how to un-break the console?

- Dave

Quoted 54 lines

Symptom: system hangs during boot, right where it's shown in the annotated log below. On 2.5.56 I also tried after disabling SMP and all the local APIC stuff in the build, but it didn't matter. These are otherwise the same .config setups, modulo whatever magic "make oldconfig" did.
In case it matters, this is kt333-based with a vt8235 south bridge. It's never shown this type of boot problem before.
Suggestions, or patches?
- Dave
Linux version 2.5.53 (root@helium) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #10 SMP Fri Jan 3 11:47:10 PST 2003 Video mode to be used for restore is f00
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
512MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f50e0
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice.
right here is where 2.5.56 (and 2.5.54) stops booting:
before messages about zone allocations. Alt-SysRQ-B works.
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126976 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda9 nmi_watchdog=1
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1532.634 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3014.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515688k/524288k available (1508k kernel code, 7864k reserved, 725k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)