Bug 108041

Summary: (MSI Neo + Athlon64) RHEL3 kernel panic
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jim Paradis <jparadis>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Warren Togami 2003-10-26 22:27:24 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Hardware:
Athlon64 3200+
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=496
MSI Neo motherboard
Built by ATI Radeon 9200
160MB IDE hard drive on VIA VT8237 PATA /dev/hda

Problem:
Kernel panic during partition check of hda when booting from Disc 1.  Same
problem with boot.iso for x86_64 from rawhide.

http://togami.com/~warren/archive/2003/rhel3amd64-panic.jpg
The best I could get for the moment is a photo of the panic dump

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107805
dmesg, lspci and more information about this hardware from 32bit Linux

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 3 AS for AMD64
Comment 1 Warren Togami 2003-10-27 14:05:29 UTC 
Chip Turner had the answer.

"idle=poll" makes it bootable.

> It disables using the 'hlt instruction when the system is idle,instead using a 
> polling technique.  Apparently busted firmware in anumber of BIOSs didn't 
> properly restore the entire 64bit currentinstruction address, restoring 
> instead only the botton 32 bits -- nota good thing :) Check for bios updates.
> Asus hasn't released anofficial update for the K8V yet (the board I have) but
> they do have abeta bios that did the trick.

Checking with hardware manufacturer...
Comment 2 Jim Paradis 2003-10-27 17:34:27 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103052 ***