Bug 156548 – gentoo fails to boot (lockup) is acpi enabled. If acpi disabled, tg3 network interface doesn't work

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Hamish Marson 2006-11-28 13:53:22 UTC]

Hardware is a Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad z61m. Core2Duo (9540-HAG) The network interface is a broadcomm device. When booting with no parameters, the boot process locks up after the kernel is loaded (Before any display after the ....'s in the load, have finished, 'Ready.' is flashed up & the screen goes blank).

If acpi=off is specified, then the kernel will boot, but the tg3 network interface does not work. TX packets & RC packets are not incremented. (It looks like no IRQ's are processed, as /proc/interrupts shows a count of 0).

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-11-28 14:04:04 UTC]

*** Bug 156550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-11-28 14:28:50 UTC]

...and have you tried any other options, such as lapic=off apic=off, instead of acpi=off?

[Comment 3 Hamish Marson 2006-11-29 10:11:07 UTC]

Sorry about the dups... bugzilla just seemed to hang...

Anyway.

Yes, I did try all sorts of options. nousb, nofirewire, nolapic, etc. Nothing helped. I tried moving IRQ's in the BIOS. natch. Debugging is kind of hard, except for that gentoo-2.6.18-r2 boots fine.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-11-29 12:57:58 UTC]

Unless it's an identical .config, a different kernel doesn't help me troubleshoot this, other than to say that if it works on the current stable when the release is made, it'll work on your box.

If you setup your tg3 manually, does it still not transfer with acpi=off?

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-05-10 21:27:16 UTC]

Can you test 2007.0 to see if this is fixed for you?

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-02-26 05:22:36 UTC]

No response.