[Core2Test3] Installation - No Fedora Core CD

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun May 2 12:47:40 UTC 2004


On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 04:39:23AM -0700, Stefan Lecho wrote:
> Using the proposed solution in the release notes
> (pci=off idel=0x180,0x386), leads to the following
> error message: "EIP is at pci_read 0x1a/0x21 ...
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init"

Duplicated.

The PCI layer in test3 is being called even when PCI methods are
not available:

	pcibios_irq_init
	pirq_peer_trick
	.. boom

This prevents installation on things like older sony Vaio boxes. Someone
broke the handling of machines without PCI between test2 and test3.

Alan





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