Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:47:55 +0400 | | From | Michael Tokarev <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.30-rc8 does not boot |
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Michael Tokarev wrote: > Hello. > > I just gave 2.6.30-rc a try, taken from Linus git, tag v2.6.29-rc8. > And this one does not want to boot on my test machine which is an > AMD X2-64 with AMD780G chipset. Neither 64 nor 32bit kernel boots. > I even tried in kvm virtual machine, -- same effect. It freezes right > after displaying "Verifying BIOS data successful" message -- nothing > more is on the screen. > > I did `make silentoldconfig' based on my current 2.6.29 configs. In > the configs there are the following changes: > - quite some changes in various new/changed drivers (which should > not affect what I'm seeing) > > - decompression: I've no idea what compression it used before, but > `make oldconfig' offered gzip by default which I accepted. Should > I try bzip2 instead? > > - changed HZ from 100 to 300 > > - also the following which I don't think I touched: > > -X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES=128 > +X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES=64 > > -X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=128 > +X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=64 > > -X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7 > +X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 > > I'm trying different compression method for now. If it will solve > this issue, my conclusion will be that the default value is wrong > and - oh well - expect more reports/questions like this one :)
Ok, compression did not change anything. But now I've a bit more info available. Here's how the boot screen looks like when the boot stops:
Loading kernel .... Loading initrd .... BIOS data check successful
PANIC: early exception 0e rip: 10:ffffffff802c9abd error 0 cr2 0 > The rest of the system is not very interesting I think: the kernel > config is pretty generic (most stuff is in modules), compiler is > default on Debian Lenny (4.3.2-1.1).
Tried two boot loaders: lilo (22.8) and extlinux. With similar effect.
Thanks!
/mjt
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