From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:11:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:09:12 -0500 Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net ([206.13.28.241]:40872 "EHLO mta5.snfc21.pbi.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:07:11 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:22:57 -0800 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: 2.5.56 won't boot (but 2.5.53 will) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <3E21F8D1.6080709@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 References: <3E207EA3.2090504@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Given all the flamage about GOTO, I thought maybe someone might prefer to actually help resolve a problem ... so, I'm resending! > Symptom: system hangs during boot, right where it's shown in the > annotated log below. On 2.5.56 I also tried after disabling SMP > and all the local APIC stuff in the build, but it didn't matter. > These are otherwise the same .config setups, modulo whatever > magic "make oldconfig" did. > > In case it matters, this is kt333-based with a vt8235 south bridge. > It's never shown this type of boot problem before. > > Suggestions, or patches? > > - Dave > > > Linux version 2.5.53 (root@helium) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat > Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #10 SMP Fri Jan 3 11:47:10 PST 2003 > Video mode to be used for restore is f00 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 512MB LOWMEM available. > found SMP MP-table at 000f50e0 > hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice. > > right here is where 2.5.56 (and 2.5.54) stops booting: > before messages about zone allocations. Alt-SysRQ-B works. > > On node 0 totalpages: 131072 > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Normal zone: 126976 pages, LIFO batch:16 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 > Virtual Wire compatibility mode. > OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 > Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 17 > I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. > Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs > Processors: 1 > Building zonelist for node : 0 > Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda9 nmi_watchdog=1 > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 1532.634 MHz processor. > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 3014.65 BogoMIPS > Memory: 515688k/524288k available (1508k kernel code, 7864k reserved, > 725k data, 112k init, 0k highmem) > >