Re: 27-git2,3,4 panics on boot

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 00:35:17 EST


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Pete Clements
<clem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fyi, x86 pentium III, uniprocessor, panics as soon as
> it starts the boot up. Output scrolls off screen, here is
> the partial call list remaining of screen:
>
> vprintk
...
> printk
> __reserve_region_with_split
> e820_reserve_resources_late
> pcibios_init

Hi,

Thanks for the report. This is probably also a case of a known error,
see this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/4/386

It should be fixed in mainline soon.


Vegard

--
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/