From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267760AbUJCI6g (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 04:58:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267769AbUJCI6g (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 04:58:36 -0400 Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.46]:6311 "EHLO mta06-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267760AbUJCI6f (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 04:58:35 -0400 Message-ID: <415FBF35.20701@freeuk.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 09:58:29 +0100 From: David Crick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.x: [no]lapic and start up / shutdown problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The first 2.6 kernel (2.6.3) I ran on my ancient PII-300 box required nolapic appended, otherwise the system would say "halting" on shutdown, but then wouldn't power off. Adding nolapic to recent kernels, however, means that the system won't get past "calibrating delay loop..." on start-up. This is true of 2.6.8.1, but started at least as far back as 2.6.7.