Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756109AbYGEXvS (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:51:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753031AbYGEXvD (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:51:03 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]:33963 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbYGEXvB (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:51:01 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:50:58 -0500 From: "Jon Nelson" To: "Robert Hancock" Subject: Re: Lots of con-current I/O = resets SATA link? (2.6.25.10) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <487001A4.1060406@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <486FBFAB.5050303@shaw.ca> <486FC5D2.80600@shaw.ca> <487001A4.1060406@shaw.ca> X-Google-Sender-Auth: a3d02ace7a4b67fb Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1499 Lines: 44 On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: > Jon Nelson wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: >>> >>> Jon Nelson wrote: >>>> >>>> Where should APIC errors be posted? >>>> My EPoX MF570-SLI *will not boot* without noapic or nolapic. >>> >>> Post on linux-kernel about that one, with the dmesg from noapic mode and >>> whatever info you can gather from when it won't boot. You might want to >>> also >>> test with 2.6.26-rc8 to see if the problem has already been fixed there. >> >> Here is the boot log from booting my EPoX MF570SLI in nolapic mode. >> When I boot without nolapic or noapic I get as far as >> >> io scheduler cfq registered (default) >> >> I can't boot to serial right now. > > You are getting this as the next line after that: > > 0000:00:02.1 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001 > > You might want to try upgrading your BIOS, it seems like the BIOS is not > letting go of the USB controller when Linux tries to take over. I don't know > if that's related to the problem though. > > If that doesn't work, I'd try a newer kernel version. I completely disabled USB in the BIOS. I get a bit further, but still, a hang. See my other msgs. -- Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/