From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754490AbZFEVov (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:44:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752650AbZFEVoo (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:44:44 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f177.google.com ([209.85.221.177]:42020 "EHLO mail-qy0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752512AbZFEVon (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:44:43 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 317 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:44:43 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SVu/xxmGJLLR32lcZjtB559QuRbIGb8qlrkKGUHMjHyDiLs6WATbzJC9t+JtAddIJS P+ZlJr7QEuZHvxnrNK1rldUxd1MoqNZMd5B2HRYvgDrAI8EvS7flNvqtmLXi3XMh49Zy Y8SOtXSwWvcjx1ZRqqL7IGPh6A1f1T6j1qe4E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:39:28 -0400 Message-ID: <9599edfc0906051439s7e006edcrdb68ccde60d51815@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Panic early in boot From: Jeff Mitchell To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a x86_64 system running inside a VMware virtual machine. It works very well with 2.6.25; however, I have tried both 2.6.27 and 2.6.29, and both give me a panic immediately upon boot. I have to use earlyprintk to get anything useful. Output is pasted below. It's hand-typed from a screenshot, so hopefully I didn't mistype anything. I can get the memory ranges if need be. Hopefully someone knows of the solution/can fix the problem. Thanks, Jeff console [earlyvga0] enabled DMI present. PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff80866edc error 0 cr2 ffffffffeff44003d Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #2 Call Trace: early_idt_handler+0x5e/0x71 dmi_string_nosave+0x34/0x80 dmi_string_nosave+0x67/0x80 dmi_string+0xa/0x6e dmi_save_ident+0x1b/0x2a dmi_decode+0x72/0x492 _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x14/0x17 __early_set_fixmap+0xa0/0xa7 dmi_table+0x4e/0x78 dmi_scan_machine+0x132/0x19f setup_arch+0x34d/0x636 early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71 start_kernel+0x86/0x35e x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf6 RIP dmi_string_nosave+0x34/0x80