Showstopper: rebooting-kernels showing up in stable

Andy Green fedora at warmcat.com
Sat Aug 21 18:52:14 UTC 2004


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On Saturday 21 August 2004 17:43, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 08:05, Andy Green wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 August 2004 13:30, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> > > Aug 15 08:23:56 aquila kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7  
> > > 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1fff0030 Aug 15 08:23:56 aquila kernel:
> > >   >>> ERROR: Invalid checksum
> >
> > Hum, I should try acpi=off and look for a BIOS update...
>
>     Did it.  Entered noapic (that's not right, is it?) and it booted.
> Then to learn more, I turned the APIC back on in the BIOS, and it's
> booting like a champ.
...
>     Thanks so much for your help!

Seems like I was only helpful by accident :-)  APIC is an "Advanced" version 
of the PIC or Programmable Interrupt Controller.  ACPI is a whole other 
animal, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.

To confuse matters the APCI stuff can define which interrupt belongs to what.

Anyway, glad you're up again :-)

- -Andy

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