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andrej.podzimek

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-04-10

Posts: 115

Kernel 2.6.19.1 doesn't boot at all

Hello everyone,
I'm experiencing a very strange problem with kernel 2.6.19.1. My machine simly doesn't boot. The last kernel message i see is

Setting up standard PCI resources

Kernels I tried:
Kernel 2.6.18: works fine. (Vanilla, Vanilla + Suspend2 and Arch default)
Kernel 2.6.19: always fails. (Vanilla, Vanilla + Suspend2, Arch (kernel26 and kernel26suspend2))

My machine:
Asus M2N laptop, Centrino.

Kernel command line:

devfs=nomount acpi=on acpi_irq_balance acpi_irq_isa=3,7,12

After removing the irq stuff, the problem persists. (IRQ 7 is needed to use LPT in ECP mode. The other two IRQs are reserved for my IRDA port.)

I found a recommendation to disable ACPI. But that's what I simply cannot do on a laptop... There have already been multiple threads on kernel 2.6.19 issues. However, only ocassional failures or kernel panics were reported. This is a different kind of problem. How could I diagnose this more precisely?

andrej.podzimek

Member

From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-04-10

Posts: 115

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.1 doesn't boot at all

Same problem again with 2.6.19.2, same hardware... This is weird.

Romashka

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.1 doesn't boot at all

Report it to bugtracker.

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andrej.podzimek

Member

From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-04-10

Posts: 115

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.1 doesn't boot at all

This is definitely not an Arch bug. The best experts are working on it right now: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7839 A simple workaround: Add "nolapic" to your kernel command line.