>>>>> "rolf" == Rolf Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi rolf> For a fresh hd install to all reiserfs of yesterday's cooker, rolf> i.e. 8.2beta w/contribs. This new Ali M1647 motherboard with Radeon rolf> 32ddr agp card, Athlon xp1700 will perform a sloppy-looking reboot rolf> successfully with kernel-2.4.8-26mdk and newer cooker kernels on 8.1 rolf> but hangs on halt, with disconcerting fields of red and shutdown rolf> messages overwritten on what looks like the boot messages. With 8.2, rolf> the halt process looks quite normal until: rolf> Unmounting file system: [OK] rolf> Halting system... rolf> md: stopping all md devices. rolf> flushing ide devices: hda hdc hdd rolf> Power down. rolf> general protection fault: fdf8 rolf> CPU:0 rolf> EIP: 0050:[<00008887>] Tainted: P rolf> EFLAGS: 00010086 rolf> eax:, ebx:, etc. (available) rolf> Process halt (pid:3333, stackpage=dca07000) rolf> Stack: (available) plese, sed me this one rolf> Call Trace: (available) This one and the System.map of the kernel that you was running at that moment. rolf> Code: Bad EIP value. rolf> /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line1: 3333 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p rolf> After Alt-SysRq-S, U, O, rolf> <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! rolf> In interrupt handler-not syncing rolf> I must reset to proceed and attempt to boot either any kernel of 8.1 rolf> on hda6 or 8.2 on hda11 from grub/menu.lst on hda6 results in rolf> "inconsistent filesystem". W98 will boot from grub. Either Mandrake rolf> will boot from a floppy. reiserfsck -x on hda11 and hda6 makes no rolf> difference. reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda11 and either Mandrake rolf> now boots from grub. rolf> One more troubling message from boot messages of all kernels: rolf> Ali15x3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20 rolf> PCI: no IRQ known for interrupt pin A of dev 00:04:0. rolf> Please try using pci=biosirq rolf> Adding pci=biosirq to the grub entry causes the 'Please try' message rolf> to go away but nothing else. rolf> Also, sensors-detect wants to insmod i2c-ali15x3 but fails, saying rolf> /lib/modules/(uname)/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-ali15x3.o.gz does not rolf> exist, which it does. Trying to modprobe this by hand fails the same, rolf> while modprobe of random other driver is OK. Cut & paste error, please. rolf> This bios is 'maturing' rapidly and there might be some improvement rolf> there. Many, like myself, seem to be attracted to this board to escape rolf> the problems of VIA but it now appears the Athlon and AGP are posing rolf> new problems. Thought there might be some utility to getting this rolf> report out before I am swallowed up completely:p Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
