Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:36:01 -0700 | From | Auke Kok <> | Subject | Re: Machine reboot |
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Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:08:34PM -0700, Auke Kok wrote: >>> and this device is Gb ethernet, e1000 is perfect candidate to look at. And >>> yes, removing e1000 >>> before reboot works around the issue. >> Have you tried to only `ifconfig ethX down` ? my own i965 board shuts down >> perfectly fine without unloading the e1000 driver. > > I can confirm that rmmod e1000 causes that machine can reboot gracefully. > >> Would you be able to debug a failed shutdown perhaps and capture the >> console output? when exactly does it `stall` ? What other interrupts are >> assigned on your system? Did other BIOS versions work correctly? > > Up to version 0864 it restarts normally. Any higher version causes hang on > restart if e1000 driver is loaded. > > I've tried to report it to Intel but they replied that Linux is unsupported on > this board... > > It's not an issue in the Linux kernel. Using various printk I can see that > tripple fault or reset via KBD is issued and followed by hang of the BIOS. > > For i965 chipsets, the BIOS is *a lot* buggy :(
that's depressing, can you send me the output of `dmidecode` of the latest BIOS? Perhaps I can reproduce it myself with that version.
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