Re: ATI RS480-based motherboard: stuck while booting with kernel >= 2.6.15 rc1

["Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@fluido.as>]

	Subject: Re: ATI RS480-based motherboard: stuck while booting with kernel >= 2.6.15 rc1
	Date: sab 21 gen 06 01:09:32 -0800

Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org):

> Can you please add `initcall_debug' to the kernel boot command line? 
> That'll tell us which function got stuck.

I photographed the screen. I am copying here the last few lines. I
hope I make no errors in copying...

...
...
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de042: init_nlm+0x0/0x21()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de063: init_nls_cp437+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de06f: init_nls_cp850+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de07b: init_nls_cp852+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de087: init_nls_iso8859_1+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de093: init_nls_iso8859_15+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de09f: init_nls_utf8+0x0/0x1f()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de0be: init_autofs4_fs+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de0ca: init_udf_fs+0x0/0x53()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de11d: ipc_init+0x0/0x14()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de2ea: init_mqueue_fs+0x0/0xc7()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de51d: key_proc_init+0x0/0x52()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de67c: init_crypto+0x0/0x18()
Initializing Cryptographic API
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de6b4: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de6c0: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de6cc: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de6d8: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de6e4: init+0x0/0x35()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de719: init+0x0/0x5a()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de773: init+0x0/0x5a()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de7cd: init+0x0/0x35()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de802: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de80e: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de81a: init+0x0/0x35()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de84f: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de85b: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de867: arc4_init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de873: init+0x0/0x5a()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de8cd: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de8d9: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de8e5: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de8f1: michael_mic_init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806de8fd: init+0x0/0xc()
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806dea0a: noop_init+0x0/0xc()
Scheduler noop registered
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806dea16: as_init+0x0/0x4f()
Scheduler anticipatory registered
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806dea65: deadline_init+0x0/0x4f()
Scheduler deadline registered
Calling initcall 0xffffffff806deab4: cfq_init+0x0/0xc4()
Scheduler cfq registered
Calling initcall 0xffffffff8026836c: pci_init+0x0/0x2b()


And then the machine freezes. I may add that, with 2.6.14.6, I am
getting errors like:

APIC error on CPU0: 04(40)

or, more often

APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

I tried either to pass noapic, or to disable apic in bios, and the
kernel entered a slow process of testing and refusing all addresses of
my SCSI card (I tried both an Advansys and a NCR: the result has been
the same) and then eventually gave an oops in ifconfig. I haven't
photographed those messages, but I will do so if needed. 

Carlo

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