Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:29:49 +0100 (MET) | From | Walter Hofmann <> | Subject | Re: Oops on poweroff (2.2.0-pre4) |
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au wrote:
> Hi Walter, > > Walter Hofmann <walter.hofmann@stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes: > > > > Linux 2.2.0-pre4 crashes on poweroff. The oops message is many pages long > > and gets repeated again and again, so I cannot guarantee that this is > > 100% accurate (I had to write it down by hand): > > > > general protection fault: fdfc > > CPU: 0 > > EIP: 0050:[<00008896>] > > > > This is a Gigabyte GA686SLX motherboard with an Award BIOS v4.51PGM. > > 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 (no the > Linux kernel). The 0050 is the APM BIOS's 16 bit code segment. Does > this also crash with previous kernels?
It crashes with 2.0.35, 2.0.36, 2.1.115. One of the 2.0.36 pre patches worked fine, though. I just don't remember which one.
Walter
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