Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 22:53:55 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6 |
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> [This is an aging thread where my old P75 machine oopsed early in > boot for both 2.4.0-XX and 2.2.17. Mike Galbraith helped me a lot > and among other things mailed me KDB, which, when enabled, made a > 2.4.0-test8 kernel boot.] > > Hi. > > I finally had some time to put printks into the kernel and that > got me somewhere. The kernel apparently oopsed in pcibios_init > trying to detect PCI stuff through the BIOS. If I pick 'direct' > as my PCI detection method the kernel boots fine (only tried > 2.4.0-test9-pre2 yet, but I'll wager 2.2.17 will boot too if > CONFIG_GOBIOS is not set). > > So I apparently have a wierd BIOS that makes the kernel oops. Is > this a known problem that some BIOS' do that?
Yes, this is already known.
AFAIK most distros use CONFIG_PCI_GOANY, which causes the kernel to try to detect the PCI devices directly, and in case this fails, it tries to detect via BIOS.
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