RC2 hangs on ACPI boot (ASUS a7n8x, nvidia)
Bruce Evans
bde at zeta.org.au
Wed Dec 31 23:41:25 PST 2003
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, J S Goldberg wrote:
> I installed both 4.9 and 5.1 ok on my ASUS A7N8X (nvidia
> chipset) with AMD 2500 cpu. After I cvsup'd to 5.2 a few
> days ago, the kernel would no longer boot, hanging after:
>
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
Configuring the APIC causes interrupt storms on the ASUS A7N8X[-E].
> Having seen other comments about nvidia and ACPI, I
> tried booting the CD with acpi disabled - and it worked.
Turning off ACPI helps by preventing configuration of the APIC.
> So... the point of the post:
>
> 1. The observation of this ACPI problem (might be related
> to others I've seen mentioned recently).
>
> 2. A request for a (cleaner) workaround to booting. E.g.,
> a way to disable acpi by default.
Remove "device apic" from your config file or turn off acpi
using the <mumble> environment variable.
Bruce
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