Re: Random boot fail on 'cannot allocate trampoline' on Intel DQ57TM board with B.11 BIOS

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 12/03/2012 07:18 PM, joeyli wrote:
> 於 二，2012-09-04 於 11:43 -0700，H. Peter Anvin 提到：
>> On 08/28/2012 08:48 PM, joeyli wrote:
>>> Hi all experts,
>>>
>>> I tried the EFI_STUB on v3.6-rc1 kernel on Intel DQ57TM board with B.11
>>> BIOS that's the only one sample board on my hand. I found it can't boot
>>> success most time, fail rate is about 80% (run 6 times only 1 time boot
>>> success).
>>> When issue reproduced, kernel emit a panic message like through serial
>>> console like the following:
>>>
>>
>> This is odd... there is plenty of low memory which should have been
>> available for the trampoline.  The ACPI errors is another issue, of
>> course...
>>
>> 	-hpa
>>
>
> I moved all memory modules (have 2 in this machine) to channel A, then I
> didn't reproduce this issue anymore.
>
> Just add this information for note to DQ57TM users.
>

That will hurt your performance.

You list your BIOS version as "B.11" but that's not the typical 
nomenclature for BIOS on this board; the current BIOS version is 0050 
with the full version string being TMIBX10H.86A.0050.2011.1207.1134.

I'm wondering if you may need a BIOS update.  Also, are you booting in 
EFI mode or BIOS mode?

	-hpa


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