When I boot my system using gentoo-test-sources-2.4.22, it hangs here: Using local APIC timer interupts calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1469.0823 MHz ..... host bus speed is 0.0000 MHz cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slice: 0 I have an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ in an nForce2 mobo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-ac4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-ac4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/ share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/ share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/ share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" DISTDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/ Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/packages-athlon-xp" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/download/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib nas bonobo svga ggi tcltk java guile ruby mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 ldap snmp cdr scanner 3dnow 3ds acl acpi acpi4linux afs altivec amd apache2 artswrappersuid atlas autofs bidi bindist clamav clisp cmucl cscope curl dedicated dga dnd doc dv dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 ethereal etwin evo expat faad fax fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flash gb gcl gd gd-external glut gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnomedb gps gstreamer gtk2 hbci icc imagemagick imap innodb ipalias ipv6 irmc jack javascript jbig jikes joystick junit justify kerberos krb4 lcd lcms ldam leim libdsk libgda lirc ltsp lucid matroska mbox mcal md5sum mmx mng mozaccess mozcalendar mozctl mozinterfaceinfo mozsvg mozxmlterm mpi mule music nocd nowin nviz oav objc oci8 odbc offensive ofx oldworld openal parse-clocks passfile pcap pcmcia pda php pic plotutils pnp ppds prelude psyco qhull rplay S3TC samba sasl skey slp socks5 sox sqlite src sse tiff transcode transparent-proxy trusted type1 usb v4l videos vim-with-x wmf wxwin wxwindows X509 Xaw3d xchattext xine xinerama xml xosd xvid"
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try booting with noapic and/or acpi=off and see if you get any different results
booting with 'noapic', 'apic=off', or 'acpi=off' still results in the kernel hanging at the same spot with the same message...
You'll need totally disable them in the config then recompile the kernel. The nforce2 boards have a really bad acpi implementation, and the kernel chokes on it.
It is working fine with 2.4.22-ck2 ... I'll disable it, recompile, and let you know for gentoo-test-sources-2.4.22 and gentoo-test-sources-2.4.22-r1 soon.
I assume you meant apic since that is what seems to be the problem and acpi is already disabled...
I've experienced the same problem and can confirm that disabling the CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC option 'solves' the problem. But still, it annoys me a bit because the 2.4.20-gentoo kernels do not have this problem.
It has something to do with apic/acpi on certain boards. The nforce boards are exceptionally bad about this. There's not a whole lot I can do, I will keep my eyes peeled for any patches that look pertinent to these problems.
This bug found its way into gentoo-sources-2.4.22, renders my system unbootable. Thought it would be better to bump this bug than create a whole new one.
see comment #8
This problem seems to be fixed in 2.4.22-gentoo-r2. My A7N8X Dlx boots just fine with CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y and CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y.
going to mark as fixed
marking as fixed, why does bugzilla insist on making me comment on to change the status...
