linux-kernel - Re: 27-git2,3,4 panics on boot

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Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:35:00 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Pete Clements" <clem@...m.clem-digital.net>
Cc:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 27-git2,3,4 panics on boot

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Pete Clements
<clem@...m.clem-digital.net> wrote:
> Fyi, x86 pentium III, uniprocessor, panics as soon as
> it starts the boot up.  Output scrolls off screen, here is
> the partial call list remaining of screen:
>
> vprintk
...
> printk
> __reserve_region_with_split
> e820_reserve_resources_late
> pcibios_init

Hi,

Thanks for the report. This is probably also a case of a known error,
see this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/4/386

It should be fixed in mainline soon.


Vegard

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