Re: [Bug 7505] Linux-2.6.18 fails to boot on AMD64 machine

[Chuck Ebbert]

In-Reply-To: <20061219172900.37312b38.akpm@xxxxxxxx>

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:29:00 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Quoting the bug report:

> general protection fault: 013b [1] PREEMPT 

That '013b' is critical information.

Bit 0: 1: exception source is external to the processor
Bit 1: 1: there is a problem with an interrupt descriptor in the IDT
Bit 2: n/a
Bits 15-3: index of the problem descriptor

So an external interrupt occurred, the system tried to use interrupt
descriptor #39 decimal (irq 7), but the descriptor was invalid.
-- 
MBTI: IXTP

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/