Subject: Re: Kernel oops at boot with 2.6.0-test9, 2.4.21ELsmp on Opteron
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From: Paul Venezia <pvenezia@ininet.com>
To: arjanv@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 05:30, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 23:32, Paul Venezia wrote:
> > I meant to include more complete traces in my previous post, but I'm
> > having some odd problem with serial consoles on this box so I only get
> > partial clean output. Here's what I can gather at the moment:
> > 
> 
> this may be a case of "the" bios bug; could you try passing "idle=poll"
> to the kernel ?
> If that helps you need a newer bios....
> 

I had checked for a newer BIOS for this board, but there isn't a newer
version available. Passing idle=poll permits the RH 2.4.21EL-smp kernel
to boot, and mysql is now functional. 2.6.0-test9, test9-smp, test10,
and test10-smp still will not boot.

-Paul
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