Re: APIC on Asus M2N SLI Deluxe

From: Prakash Punnoor
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 12:18:13 EST


Am Montag 18 September 2006 18:04 schrieb Gerd v. Egidy:
> > > > recently, I tried to upgrade the bios of the ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
> > > > board from release 0202 to 0307. With the 0307 bios, I get a kernel
> > > > panic that the APIC cannot be found. Concerning this, I've two
> > > > explanations, could possibly confirm someone here this:
> > >
> > > I can confim this problem.
> >
> > Does it boot with no_timer_check boot parameter?
>
> no, same bug.
>
> Booting with apic=debug as suggested in the error message doesn't reveal
> any additional details. Maybe I have to compile with some special debug
> options?

I don't think so. I once had the same problem with my board. On 2.6.16.x I got
same message. 2.6.18-rcx booted further, but hanged. Above parameter helped
though with 2.6.18-rc. As I haven't tested 2.6.17 nor 2.6.16 with obve
parameter, I could only guess. The real fix for me though was to disable the
nvidia quirk. Then my system boots and runs fine with 2.6.18-rc kernel w/o
any additional parameter. You may want to look into:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115545986619977&w=2

Cheers,
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