Timecounters and 5.2

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Jan 20 18:28:30 PST 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:36:00PM -0500, alexis georges wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I am trying to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2.
> First here are the things to know; i have these
> 
> AMD AthlonXP 2400+
> nForce2-400 Motherboard -> Asus A7N8X-Deluxe (pcb 2)
> 
> now when i am booting from cd, i get this:
> 
> [MSG]
> Timecounters "TSC" 1996989537 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> [/MSG[
> 
> now the problem is that the loading just stops and freezes at these 2 
> lines..

What does 'boot -v' show?  The problem may not be in the timecounter
code, this could just be the last thing that was displayed prior to
the hang in other code.

> i Have never had this kind of message with 5.1, so I was wondering 
> if anyone had experianced this, or if anyone has an idea.
> (I also tried booting w/out ACPI but later on i get some errors about a 
> PNP* device not being able to load..)

What is the exact error?

Kris
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