From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756725AbZCSIkd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:40:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754243AbZCSIkY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:40:24 -0400 Received: from shakaweb.org ([85.25.54.21]:50337 "EHLO shakaweb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752517AbZCSIkX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:40:23 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1653 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:40:23 EDT Message-ID: <49C1FE7D.9070605@shakaweb.org> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:12:45 +0100 From: Christopher Schramm User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.216.219.212 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: debian@shakaweb.org Subject: APIC problem report X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on shakaweb.org) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I found a problem with APIC on a desktop PC equipped with Asus' M2N, running the manufacturer's AMI BIOS - version 0803. I've tried booting Knoppix 5.3.1 (Kernel 2.6.24.4) and GParted live (Debian's 2.6.26-13). Both will only boot if noapic parameter is used. Otherwise I get "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" resulting in a kernel panic. apic=debug gives "ACPI: Core revision 20080321", "Version 80050010" (twice), "ID: 0", "LVT0: 700", "LVT1:400" and "ESR value before enabling vector: 0x00000004 after: 0x00000000". Hope it's of some use (and the best place to report it) Christopher