Re: Linux-2.6.1-mm4/5 dies booting on an Athlon64

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

Hi,

> Boszormenyi Zoltan writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > mainboard is MSI K8T Neo, Athlon64 3200+.
>  > It does not boot successfully without the "nolapic"
>  > option. "noapic" does not make any difference, "nolapic" does.
>  > Kernel is compiled on a 32bit Fedora,
>  > K7/Athlon and Hammer/Opteron/Athlon64
>  > are selected under CPU support.
>
> 1. "does not boot successfully" is extremely vague.
>    Please supply a boot log or decoded kernel oops.

Uncompressing kernel... and then nothing. Even the screen is emptied,
cursor blinks in column 0 of line approx. 8, at about 1/3 of the screen.

> 2. Does this also occur with 2.6.1 or 2.6.2-rc1?
>    If so, what was the last standard 2.6 kernel that worked?
> 3. Does 2.4.25-pre6 work?

I will try these. FC1 2.4.22-2149 definitely works.

> 4. Try a minimal .config w/o any non-essential features.
>    (Where non-essential mean anything not needed to boot
>    and get to a login prompt.)

OK.

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Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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