From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (the linuxbios compatible version) problems Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:05:57 -0800 Message-ID: <20070315110557.ef1df0c8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200703121210.15812.st@iss.tu-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:36592 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751289AbXCOTGH (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:06:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200703121210.15812.st@iss.tu-darmstadt.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: ST Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:10:15 +0100 ST wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to boot 2.6.20.2 on a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 with f7 stock bios. > I get the message: > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs > ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed. > ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed. > ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(. > Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! > > I can boot with noapic option but then i only have one processor (AMD X2 3800+ > stepping 02). > > apic=debug doesn't give any more output than this. > > A bios update didn't help to the f7 version didn't help. This error is also > present with the debian stock kernel. > > I thought that this MB should be pretty good supported, given the fact that > there is an linuxbios in the works for this MB or am i bitten by a HW > failure? > Apparently pci=noacpi fixes this. ST (what sort of a name is that?): please raise a report against ACPI at bugzilla.kernel.org, thanks.