On Thursday 01 May 2008, Richard wrote: > 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 :-) if the problem is the apic timer stopping during C-states, then you should find that idle=poll will also work around the problem. If idle=poll does not work around it but noapictimer does, then the problem is the apic timer when the system is non-idle. -Len -- 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
