Len Brown wrote: > 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 > > Hi Len, thanks - the idle=poll works to fix the problem. 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
