Linux-2.6.1-mm4/5 dies booting on an Athlon64

Linux-2.6.1-mm4/5 dies booting on an Athlon64

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

Hi,

mainboard is MSI K8T Neo, Athlon64 3200+.
It does not boot successfully without the "nolapic"
option. "noapic" does not make any difference, "nolapic" does.
Kernel is compiled on a 32bit Fedora,
K7/Athlon and Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64
are selected under CPU support.

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Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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Re: Linux-2.6.1-mm4/5 dies booting on an Athlon64

[Mikael Pettersson]

Boszormenyi Zoltan writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > mainboard is MSI K8T Neo, Athlon64 3200+.
 > It does not boot successfully without the "nolapic"
 > option. "noapic" does not make any difference, "nolapic" does.
 > Kernel is compiled on a 32bit Fedora,
 > K7/Athlon and Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64
 > are selected under CPU support.

1. "does not boot successfully" is extremely vague.
   Please supply a boot log or decoded kernel oops.

2. Does this also occur with 2.6.1 or 2.6.2-rc1?
   If so, what was the last standard 2.6 kernel that worked?

3. Does 2.4.25-pre6 work?

4. Try a minimal .config w/o any non-essential features.
   (Where non-essential mean anything not needed to boot
   and get to a login prompt.)

Re: Linux-2.6.1-mm4/5 dies booting on an Athlon64

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

Hi,

> Boszormenyi Zoltan writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > mainboard is MSI K8T Neo, Athlon64 3200+.
>  > It does not boot successfully without the "nolapic"
>  > option. "noapic" does not make any difference, "nolapic" does.
>  > Kernel is compiled on a 32bit Fedora,
>  > K7/Athlon and Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64
>  > are selected under CPU support.
> 
> 1. "does not boot successfully" is extremely vague.
>    Please supply a boot log or decoded kernel oops.

Uncompressing kernel... and then nothing. Even the screen is emptied,
cursor blinks in column 0 of line approx. 8, at about 1/3 of the screen.

> 2. Does this also occur with 2.6.1 or 2.6.2-rc1?
>    If so, what was the last standard 2.6 kernel that worked?
> 3. Does 2.4.25-pre6 work?

I will try these. FC1 2.4.22-2149 definitely works.

> 4. Try a minimal .config w/o any non-essential features.
>    (Where non-essential mean anything not needed to boot
>    and get to a login prompt.)

OK.

-- 
Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

---------------------
What did Hussein say about his knife?
One in Bush worth two in the hand.

Re: Linux-2.6.1-mm4/5 dies booting on an Athlon64

[Hanspeter Kunz]

Just an idea: I had similar problems in 2.6.1-mm4.
I had to disable PNP bios support.

cheers,
Hp.

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 11:48, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Boszormenyi Zoltan writes:
> >  > Hi,
> >  > 
> >  > mainboard is MSI K8T Neo, Athlon64 3200+.
> >  > It does not boot successfully without the "nolapic"
> >  > option. "noapic" does not make any difference, "nolapic" does.
> >  > Kernel is compiled on a 32bit Fedora,
> >  > K7/Athlon and Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64
> >  > are selected under CPU support.
> > 
> > 1. "does not boot successfully" is extremely vague.
> >    Please supply a boot log or decoded kernel oops.
> 
> Uncompressing kernel... and then nothing. Even the screen is emptied,
> cursor blinks in column 0 of line approx. 8, at about 1/3 of the screen.
> 
> > 2. Does this also occur with 2.6.1 or 2.6.2-rc1?
> >    If so, what was the last standard 2.6 kernel that worked?
> > 3. Does 2.4.25-pre6 work?
> 
> I will try these. FC1 2.4.22-2149 definitely works.
> 
> > 4. Try a minimal .config w/o any non-essential features.
> >    (Where non-essential mean anything not needed to boot
> >    and get to a login prompt.)
> 
> OK.
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University of Zurich
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