Len Brown wrote: > On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Richard wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Now I am at a loss.. I cant get any logs from netconsole. With ACPI >> enabled it drops dead just after the kernel hands control to Init. When >> I reboot with acpi disabled there is no trace of the previous boot in >> /var/log/message or kernel logs. >> >> The network card I have is a Tigon3 and its not initialised before the >> system dies... or so it looks (altho I cant seem to get any netconsole >> working - I suspect pebkac) >> >> I have tried to find an option where the kernel boot is logged >> explicitly to disk, but I cant seem to find the option. There is so much >> chaff I cant seem to get my brain to find the REAL options list thats up >> to date. >> >> Any pointers are appreciated >> > > go fishing with this bait: > > idle=poll > acpi=noirq > > -Len > > Thanks :-) With help from Thomas (and his team) , noapictimer seems to have fixed the symptom.. now its to hunt for the cure :-) Richard -- 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