Re: [Linux-ia64] i2000 won't boot for me with current 2.5.69-bk

Alex Williamson
2003-05-27T00:44:19Z

> >>>>> "Peter" = Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> writes:
>
> Peter> I've tracked down the problem to something in mca.c: the second
> Peter> call to get SAL error logs causes a partial reboot instead of
> Peter> returning error logs. I instrumented bits of mca.c to see what
> Peter> was going on (hope the printk output is self-explanatory). This
> Peter> is on a uniprocessor i2000.
>
> If I disable CONFIG_MCA the machine boots and appears to work (except
> for the ps/2 keyboard and mouse).
>

Peter,

See this thread:

https://lists.linuxia64.org/archives//linux-ia64/2003-March/004872.html

In short, if you're not up to at least firmware rev 117c on your i2000,
you need to upgraded. The CPE polling between 2.4 & 2.5 should be pretty
much identical.

Alex