Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:51:23 +0200 | From | Rasmus Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6 |
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[This is an aging thread where my old P75 machine oopsed early in boot for both 2.4.0-XX and 2.2.17. Mike Galbraith helped me a lot and among other things mailed me KDB, which, when enabled, made a 2.4.0-test8 kernel boot.]
Hi.
I finally had some time to put printks into the kernel and that got me somewhere. The kernel apparently oopsed in pcibios_init trying to detect PCI stuff through the BIOS. If I pick 'direct' as my PCI detection method the kernel boots fine (only tried 2.4.0-test9-pre2 yet, but I'll wager 2.2.17 will boot too if CONFIG_GOBIOS is not set).
So I apparently have a wierd BIOS that makes the kernel oops. Is this a known problem that some BIOS' do that? Or do I own an especially evil one? :)
Also (for Mike Galbraith): Why did the KDB make a difference in this case? I could not this any code it touched in the vicinity of pcibios_init(). But I probably did not look hard enough.
Anyways, my machine boots now and I'll try to get Win98 off it and a linux distro on it. BTW: Anybody know a distro that does not have BIOS PCI detection compiled in in its boot kernel?
-- Regards, Rasmus(rasmus@jaquet.dk)
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