Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

Gene Heskett
2008-02-05T04:44:28Z

On Monday 04 February 2008, Mark Lord wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 03 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> * Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I believe its the same, but lemme paste it for sure, yes:
>>>> [ 26.339926] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
>>>> [ 26.340119] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
>>>> [ 26.350129] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>>>> [ 26.350182] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
>>>> failed. [ 26.350185] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...
>>>> failed. [ 26.360186] ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... works.
>>>>
>>>> The third line is the only line that makes it to the screen during the
>>>> boot trace.
>>>>
>>>> Now, what does this tell us?
>>>
>>> the question would be:
>>>
>>> - if you remove the acpi_use_timer_override boot flag
>>> - and if you boot a kernel with this hack applied
>>>
>>> => do those weird PATA failures come back?
>>>
>>> If the failues do _not_ come back then the problem is somehow
>>> affected/worked-around by the IO-APIC code that generates the above 4
>>> lines. If the failures are still the same then the above 4 lines are
>>> really just an uninteresting side-effect of the acpi_use_timer_override
>>> flag - and the real side-effects (that fixes PATA on your box) are to be
>>> found elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Sadly, the latter variant is the expected answer.
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>
>> And at this point, I can't tell. This reboot was from a cold start,
>> without the argument, and cold by long enough to make the rounds about the
>> house and pick up a beer, but not take my evening pillbox. A minute cold,
>> maybe 2 max. The log is clean since except for a kudzu nag of some sort:
>
>..
>
>Just to muddy your observations: it is quite possible that a cold
> (power-off) reboot may be required to properly observe what happens here.
>
Precisely why I've now done that twice, without using the extra argument. No
recurrence dammit.

>Cheers

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