hang/panic of 5.2.1-RELEASE installation.

[gubarev at itep.ru]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 gubarev at itep.ru wrote:
>
> >
> > fresh installation of 5.2.1-RELEASE fails here with
> > funny symptoms which apparently was never discussed before
> > (at least I failed to find anything similar). Machine basically
> > is P4 with 1Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9000 (laptop - see below for details).
> >
> > 1. With HTT enabled and almost all devices disabled (via BIOS)
> > I have a strictly reproducible kernel panic right after interrupts
> > assignment. The relevant kernel  message is
> >
> > "panic: interrupt from missing bus"
>
> You have ACPI disabled it appears .. have you tried enabling it?

Sure, I tried, the only difference on boot is

"ACPI autoload failed - no such file or directory"

before kernel loading. Seems ACPI module is missing on installation
media?

> It sounds like your mptable is corrrupted... check for a BIOS update.

Will try that although not sure whether it'll help....