Panic early in boot

[Jeff Mitchell]

I have a x86_64 system running inside a VMware virtual machine.  It
works very well with 2.6.25; however, I have tried both 2.6.27 and
2.6.29, and both give me a panic immediately upon boot.  I have to use
earlyprintk to get anything useful.

Output is pasted below.  It's hand-typed from a screenshot, so
hopefully I didn't mistype anything.  I can get the memory ranges if
need be.  Hopefully someone knows of the solution/can fix the problem.

Thanks,
Jeff


console [earlyvga0] enabled
DMI present.
PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff80866edc error 0 cr2 ffffffffeff44003d
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #2
Call Trace:
early_idt_handler+0x5e/0x71
dmi_string_nosave+0x34/0x80
dmi_string_nosave+0x67/0x80
dmi_string+0xa/0x6e
dmi_save_ident+0x1b/0x2a
dmi_decode+0x72/0x492
_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x14/0x17
__early_set_fixmap+0xa0/0xa7
dmi_table+0x4e/0x78
dmi_scan_machine+0x132/0x19f
setup_arch+0x34d/0x636
early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71
start_kernel+0x86/0x35e
x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf6
RIP dmi_string_nosave+0x34/0x80
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