> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:10:15 +0100 ST <st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to boot 2.6.20.2 on a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 with f7 stock bios. > I get the message: > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs > ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed. > ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed. > ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(. > Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! > > I can boot with noapic option but then i only have one processor (AMD X2 3800+ > stepping 02). > > apic=debug doesn't give any more output than this. > > A bios update didn't help to the f7 version didn't help. This error is also > present with the debian stock kernel. > > I thought that this MB should be pretty good supported, given the fact that > there is an linuxbios in the works for this MB or am i bitten by a HW > failure? > Apparently pci=noacpi fixes this. ST (what sort of a name is that?): please raise a report against ACPI at bugzilla.kernel.org, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
