On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:37:01 -0500 Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hardware summary: http://tinyurl.com/ap79ra > APIC details: http://intertwingly.net/stories/2009/01/22/ > Note acpidump.err: Wrong checksum for OEMB! > > Messages on boot using Intrepid, Jaunty Alpha 3, or Fedora 10: > > [ 0.296001] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > [ 0.296001] Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! > Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the > 'noapic' option. > [ 0.296001] > > Able to get past this issue using "noapic", at which point things mostly > work, Join the ever-growing noapic club :( I assume this is an ACPI problem. Or at least, a BIOS problem which ACPI can solve for us. > but rsync of large iso images result in corrupt files. Able to > copy those same files using Vista on the same machine, or using Hardy on > another machine. This problem may not be related to the above, but it > seems plausible to me that this might be an interrupt issue. Yes, it might be unrelated. There are no kernel messages when it happens? > memtest86+ runs clean. > > Quite willing to invest time in installing kernels or distributions on > fresh hard drives, run tests, obtain debug information, and report back. > > More background here: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/01/20/noAPIC > > Not subscribed, but will actively monitor the web archives for this > mailing list for the next several days. It'd be best to raise a report against ACPI?BIOS (I think) at bugzilla.kernel.org, please. If any previous kernel version worked OK, please be sure to note that. 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
