Re: Hang on booting 2.6.3 at "Edge set to Level Trigger"

[Len Brown <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 09:32, Philipp wrote:
> 
> Am Freitag, 19. März 2004 10:46 schrieb Sérgio "M. Basto":
> > easy one, disable SMP and APIC in kernel configuration or boot with
> > something like this: noloapic
> 
> Unfortunately, booting with noapic or noloapic takes no effect. dmesg always 
> shows something like
> 
> Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
> Found and enabled local APIC!

In 2.6.3, "nolapic" should be effective at disabling detect_init_APIC()
which is doing this.  Check that there has not been some modification to
arch/i386/kernel/apic.c

> And if I boot with "noapic acpi=on" or "noloapic acpi=on" the boot process 
> hangs on the "Edge set to Level Trigger"-Point.
> 
> I guess I have to recompile the kernel with APIC disabled, right?

I guess so.
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=n

-Len




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