Re: 2.6.23-rc3-hrt2 stall during boot on ASUS F3T (x86_64)

Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-20T09:31:20Z

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:35 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:
> > > > at 73.442744: I do nothing, the kernel continue to boot after 168 sec
> > > >
> > > > at 243.497822: After 2 hours i press and hold "shift" button to continue booting
> > > >
> > > > The dmesg output and my kernel configuration are listed below.
> > > >
> > > > I test i386 version of the same kernel with very similar configuration, it boot normally.
> >
> > Can you please add "noapictimer" to the kernel command line ?
>
> This helps, thank you.
> Why it is not required for i386 kernel?
> Is it possible to fix this problem without disabling of apic timer?

Probably, but we need more information about the breakage. I assume that
the 64 bit kernel does something different with the power states on idle

Can you please provide the output of /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power for
both the 32 and the 64 bit kernel ?

tglx