Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:25:59 +1100 (EST) | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: Oops on poweroff (2.2.0-pre4) |
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> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 14:37:47 -0500 > From: Kris Karas <ktk@ktk.bidmc.harvard.edu> > > Stephen.Rothwell writes: > > > > Linux 2.2.0-pre4 crashes on poweroff. The oops message is many pages long > > You are the second person with a Gigabyte motherboard to report this. > > We suspect a bad BIOS as the line EIP: 0050:[<00008896>] > > indicates that the code is being executed out of the BIOS > > I've noticed the same behavior, on a HP vectra (using HP's BIOS), on a > SuperMicro P6-DS (Modern AMI BIOS) and on an ASUS P2B-DS (Award BIOS). It's > also interesting to note that if the LK is compiled UP, APM is enabled, and > the config ooption for "poweroff on shutdown" enabled, the machine/BIOS powers > off just fine. So perhaps what's happening is that the kernel's SysRq > poweroff feature isn't initializing the APM the way it would otherwise have > been initialized, and this is causing the BIOS to become confused.
So are you implying that all the faulting machines are SMP?
Cheers, Stephen Rothwell Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
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