linux-kernel - Re: linux on Intel D915GOM oops

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Message-Id: <1156754346.3034.167.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:39:06 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Henti Smith <henti@...kware.co.za>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux on Intel D915GOM oops

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:[<c00f02fa>]	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
> [<c01f5724>] bios32_service+0x1c/0x68
> [<c01f5780>] check_pcibios+0x10/0xd3
> [<c01f5a77>] 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

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