FC1 AMD64 Preview installer crash

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On 4 Dec 2003 at 6:09pm, seth vidal wrote

> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:39, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On 2 Dec 2003 at 4:48pm, seth vidal wrote
> > 
> > > I've also noticed that if I disable acpi in the bios the oops changes
> > > some.
> > 
> > I don't think the bios is properly disabling acpi.  Mine boots just fine 
> > if you leave ACPI on in the BIOS but put 'acpi=off' on the kernel 
> > boot line (as Warren suggested).  There's still an oops during bootup, but 
> > it powers through and boots all the way up.  The contents of 
> > /var/log/dmesg (including the non-crashing oops) after a successful boot 
> > are here:
> > 
> > http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/nocrash.acpioff.8GB.smp
> > 
> 
> this is the identical oops I get when I boot w/o a serial console on.
> 
> But mine hangs and throws a single keventd error after the oops before
> the keyboard lights start blinking (no, I'm not making this up)

Booting my 8GB node with mem=1024M does indeed get it to hang after the 
oops.  Same for mem=2048M and mem=4033M[1].  mem=4095M got it to boot up.  
Is there some other magic value I should try that would help pin down 
where the border is?

[1] The system messages mention "Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory 
hole\Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup\This costs you 64 MB 
of RAM", so I tried 4096-64+1.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University