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SubjectRe: 2.2.13 freeze at PCI probing
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Months-old thread returning here...

Martin Mares writes the following:
>
>Hello!
>> On power cycling it, I repeatedly got a hard freeze right after "PCI: Probing
>> PCI hardware". Out of about 8 boot attempts, 2 went through perfectly, the
>> rest would just say "Probing PCI hardware" and then die completely.
>>
>> Here's what a dmesg looks like after the last (successful) boot. From my
>> memory of the crash screens, when it froze it didn't have second of the two
>> big tables right before the PCI probing message (IRQ to pin mappings)
>>
>> How should I attack this problem if it comes up again?
>
> Please try booting with "pci=nobios" or "pci=conf1".

That machine just had its next reboot, and pci=nobios seems to do the trick.
Would you mind explaining why? Is it likely a bug in the BIOS, an error in
the configuration, or something else?

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