RE: Oops at boot: 2.4.10-pre15, acpi

[Grover, Andrew]

2.4.10 should fix this. ACPI won't load (it appears it's not an ACPI
machine) but it won't oops, either.

Let me know asap if the problem is still there.

Thanks -- Regards -- Andy

> From: Giacomo A. Catenazzi [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Note: Oops copied by hand from console.
> 
> The oops happens just after:
> "APCI: System description table not found"
> 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferences at virtual address
> 000000d4
> c015d7e2
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c015d7e2>]
> Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
> EFLAGS: 00010282
> eax: 00000000   ebx: c0133fd0   ecx: 00000000   edx: 000010ca
> esi: c021dfd4   edi: c025a4f4   ebp: 0008e000   esp: c1133fb8
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Stack: c024aa4c c016b904 c1133fb0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> Call Trace: [<c016b904>] [<c016bcba>] [<c010503b>] [<c010547c>]
> Code: 8b 80 d4 00 00 00 00 e8 46
> 
> >>EIP; c015d7e2 <acpi_get_timer+22/40>   <=====
> Trace; c016b904 <bm_initialize+28/a0>
> Trace; c016bcba <bm_osl_init+46/54>
> Trace; c010503b <init+7/10c>
> Trace; c010547c <kernel_thread+28/38>
> Code;  c015d7e2 <acpi_get_timer+22/40>
> 00000000 <_EIP>:
> Code;  c015d7e2 <acpi_get_timer+22/40>   <=====
>    0:   8b 80 d4 00 00 00         mov    0xd4(%eax),%eax   <=====
> Code;  c015d7e8 <acpi_get_timer+28/40>
>    6:   00 e8                     add    %ch,%al
> Code;  c015d7ea <acpi_get_timer+2a/40>
>    8:   46                        inc    %esi
> 
> 
> 	giacomo
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