On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 18:21 +0200, Linus van Geuns wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 12:35 +0200, Linus van Geuns wrote: > >> Package: linux-2.6 > >> Version: 2.6.32-23 > >> Severity: important > >> > >> If Intel TXT is enabled in BIOS settings, machine reboots during dom0 > >> kernel startup when used as dom0 with xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64. > >> Displays message "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated..", waits some > >> seconds and just reboots. > >> After disabling Intel TXT, I have not encountered any unexpected reboots > >> so far.. :) > > > > Does Debian even support TXT boot in the first place? > > Im talking about the BIOS option "Intel TXT", not about a real > "trusted" boot environment starting Debian/Xen.
I don't know much (or indeed anything) about TXT but I think I would recommend leaving the BIOS option turned off unless you have a suitable OS environment. Ian. > > > > > Does this also happen on bare metal, with either the -xen-amd64 or plain > > -amd64 kernels? > > Nope. > > > > > If you add "noreboot" to your hypervisor command line do you get the > > opportunity to observe any error messages which you are missing due to > > the reboot? > > There is one additional "error" message after the message "Waiting for > /Dev to be fully polpulated...": > "Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting..". ;-) > > Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 2 and 9 is reported as the first > messages from dom0 kernel, but those messages are also present when > booting w/o TXT = Enabled setting. > > When I remove the 'quiet' kernel parameter, the mast messages seen are > sometimes from DRM and from USB otherwise. > > Regards, Linus (no, not that one :-)) > > > -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Testament - Leave Me Forever Never try to outstubborn a cat. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org