> Hi Walter,
>
> Walter Hofmann <walter.hofmann@stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> >
> > Linux 2.2.0-pre4 crashes on poweroff. The oops message is many pages long
> > and gets repeated again and again, so I cannot guarantee that this is
> > 100% accurate (I had to write it down by hand):
> >
> > general protection fault: fdfc
> > CPU: 0
> > EIP: 0050:[<00008896>]
> >
> > This is a Gigabyte GA686SLX motherboard with an Award BIOS v4.51PGM.
>
> You are the second person with a Gigabyte motherboard to report this.
> We suspect a bad BIOS as the line
> > EIP: 0050:[<00008896>]
> indicates that the code is being executed out of the BIOS (no the
> Linux kernel). The 0050 is the APM BIOS's 16 bit code segment. Does
> this also crash with previous kernels?
It crashes with 2.0.35, 2.0.36, 2.1.115. One of the 2.0.36 pre
patches worked fine, though. I just don't remember which one.
Walter
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