From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751959Ab0CQBKc (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:10:32 -0400 Received: from bware04.bur.connect.com.au ([210.8.230.175]:60720 "EHLO bware04.bur.connect.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751638Ab0CQBKb (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:10:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1371 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:10:31 EDT Authentication-Results: bware04.bur.connect.com.au header.from=rhouse@smartchat.net.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Message-ID: <4BA026AB.2040203@smartchat.net.au> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:47:39 +1000 From: Ron House User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: PROBLEM: 2.6.30 fails to detect hardware limitation requiring "noapic" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I hope this is the right place to report a kernel bug. I have an Acer desktop, bog standard system. My previous kernel 2.6.26 tells me that I need to set option "noapic", and then halts. This behaviour is correct. Although it would be nice if the kernel dealt with noapic automatically, the attempt to make this happen in 2.6.30 doesn't work. Booting with 2.6.30 gives me a bootup with many errors - USB ports not responding, failure to set the clock, and others. Then when it has finished booting, both the mouse and keyboard are dead. (But the system is running and can be accessed via ssh.) When I reboot 2.6.30 with "noapic", it boots correctly. My comment on this is that 2.6.26 is actually more useful than 2.6.30, because 2.6.30 doesn't give any clue as to what is wrong or how to fix it. If I hadn't previously had the experience with 2.6.26, I would have been hopelessly lost. Hope this is useful, and thank you so much for the wonderful software! -- Ron House. Building Peace: http://peacelegacy.org Australian Birds: http://wingedhearts.org Principle of Goodness academic site: http://principleofgoodness.net