[64studio-devel] unable to boot 0.9.5 on dual opteron machine.

[Ben Loftis]

Unfortunately I am still unable to boot my dual Opteron machine with 
0.9.6.  I might try reinstalling 0.9.4, and installing Free's new 2.6.18 
kernel .deb to see if that leads to any clues.  Should that be expected 
to work?

-Ben
 
> Ben Loftis wrote:
>> I installed 0.9.5 today on my dual Opteron machine.  Installation 
>> went fine but when I try to boot, the system hangs immediately after 
>> the splash screen appears.
>>
>> Editing the grub line to add combinations of noapic, noacpi, and 
>> nosmp do not have any effect.
>>
>> Disabling the splash screen allows me to see what appears to be a 
>> stack trace, which usually ends with something like this:
>>
>> preempt count: 000000001
>> 1-level deep critical section nesting:
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> .. [SOME_HEX_ADDRESS] ... _spin_lock+0xe/0x19
>> ..[<0000000>] .. ( <= _stext+[[SOME_HEX_ADDRESS]])
>>
>> note: softirq-timer/0[5] exited with preempt_count 1
>>
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