Safe-mode on amd64 broken

[Alexander Motin]

David Naylor wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2010 16:19:08 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> What do you try to actually achieve?
> 
> I was trying to boot a system and it was panicking due to stray interrupts.  
> It turned out to be caused by HPET.  I found `hint.hpet.0.clock=0' which fixed 
> the problem.  
> 
> This means HPET does not work on any of my machines.  The other one's symptoms 
> are hda losing interrupts after a period of up-time.  

What chipset do you use? Nvidia MCP5x? Could you send me your verbose dmesg?

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Alexander Motin