Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device)
From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
       Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
       Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 12:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > It's not a problem (I just wasn't sure, whether enabling APIC might
> > change something relevant.
> 
> It did. You no longer show the problem. No irq storm.
> 
> So can you disable APIC again, and just remove the non-relevant APIC
> print
> calls to get it to compile?

I think if you boot the kernel you have with "nolapic" that will be a
valid test for us to examine PIC mode.

thanks,
-Len

ps. I'm curious why you were running with !IOAPIC kernel suport on a
system which has an IOAPIC.


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