linux-kernel - Re: FW: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system

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Message-Id: <201104241022.17009.chris@csamuel.org>
Date:	Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:22:16 +1000
From:	Chris Samuel <chris@...muel.org>
To:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
Cc:	Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@...mail.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FW: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:16:22 AM Chris Samuel wrote:

> A fuller kernel does proceed further than before, before running
> into issues where both the e100 and aix7xxx drivers complain about
> not being able to find their IRQ's and that this might be due to
> a buggy MP table.

Booting with noapic nolapic removes the IRQ warning but the
system still times out trying to mount the root filesystem and
reboots itself.

I'll be away for a day or two now.

All the best,
Chris
-- 
 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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