Re: ACPI issues on HP DL585 G2

Yinghai Lu
2009-06-28T04:26:49Z

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Stephen Frost<sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>  When running pretty much anything newer than 2.6.22, both the cciss
>  module and the bnx2 module get stuck in a "Loading" state in
>  /proc/modules.  As cciss contains my root partition, I get dropped
>  into an initrd after a while because root can't be found.  After some
>  googleing, etc, I saw a bunch of recommendations to add
>  "pci=noapic noapic" to the command-line.  After I did that, the box
>  booted fine under 2.6.29.  I figured people might like to hear about
>  this issue though.  Attached are a dmesg from 2.6.22 and a dmesg from
>  2.6.29 (w/ the noapic options).  I've also included the output of
>  hpasmcli -s "show server".  If there's anything else that would be
>  useful to help figure this out, please let me know.

[ 0.000000] nr_irqs_gsi: 38

in madt
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xf7cf0000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, address 0xf7cf0000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x09] address[0xf7fd0000] gsi_base[24])
IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 9, address 0xf7fd0000, GSI 24-30
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x0a] address[0xf7fe0000] gsi_base[31])
IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 10, address 0xf7fe0000, GSI 31-37
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x0b] address[0xf7ff0000] gsi_base[38])
IOAPIC[3]: apic_id 11, address 0xf7ff0000, GSI 38-61

please try to 2.6.29.x stable

or

try 2.6.30

YH