Re: 2.1.36 won't boot

John Wyszynski (wyszynsk@clark.net)
Sat, 26 Apr 1997 11:00:34 -0400


Located the problem. The change that was made to "arch/i386/kernel/head.S"
breaks on my machine. It runs fine with the 2.1.35 version of the file.

John

Myself peviously (again):
> Myself previously:
> > When booting 2.1.36, I get to "Booting processor 1 stack c0002000:" and
> > then the system reboots itself.
> >
> > Configuration is Dual Pentiums (Tomcat III) with the default configs except
> > set for Pentium and parport support (SMP is set).
>
> Narrowed it down to the "apic_write" just after "Before start apic_write."
> message in "smp.c". Can't find any changes in the code around it and the
> values written to the apic don't appear to have changed.