Re: enabling AMD_PM768 causes boot hang in 2.4.20-rc3

Bruce Lowekamp (lowekamp@CS.WM.EDU)
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0500


--On Monday, November 25, 2002 12:13:00 AM +0000 Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 19:15, Bruce Lowekamp wrote:
>>
>> With a dual-processor A7M266-D MB (two AMD XP-MP 1900+), enabling
>> CONFIG_AMD_PM768 causes the machine to hang on boot.
>>
>> I don't think this is a major concern for the release because the
>> description of this parameter includes EXPERIMENTAL (although it is not
>> flagged to be selectable on when experimental options are enabled).
>>
>> A few details: The kernel is booted with noapic (has always hung
>> otherwise). It hangs right after listing the drives and ide interfaces,
>> and right before it prints out the geometry of the first drive. This is
>> the output prior to hanging:
>
> Does it work loaded as a module ?
>

Nope. Got the prompt back and then it hung.

I put my .config online (temporarily) at
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~lowekamp/amd_pm768-config if that helps diagnose
anything.

Thanks,
Bruce

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