Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc[1-4]: boot fail with (lapic && on_battery) | From | Sergio Monteiro Basto <> | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:14:08 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 00:27 +0000, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:27 +0100, Ernst Herzberg wrote: > > With 2.6.18.x everything works fine. > > > > But 2.16.19-rc does not boot if the laptop runs on battery _and_ lapic > > is > > defined as boot parameter. > > > > The kernel loads and starts, for a fraction of a second some messages > > appears, > > then the screen goes blank and nothing more happens. > > > > I'm unable to read the last message, screen blanking is to fast, but > > the > > 'picture' looks like that he stops near the messages where at the > > normal > > boot demsg "Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with > > "lapic"" > > appears. > > Hi, > If you don't enable lapic, you will see cat /proc/interrupts with > XT-PIC. > if you try enable lapic, somehow IRQ routing should change > and if /proc/interrupts still the same, with IRQs on XT-PIC. > I think, lapic still not enable and you just get problems. > Unless you know that lapic works, you should try it enable because it a > trap that just give you a problem. > Some years ago (2002/3) was a very common bug kernel try enable > automatically lapic (when BIOS don't) and computer hangs . > >
s/you should try/you shouldn't try/
-- Sérgio M.B. [unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature] | |