Bug 533274

Summary: early boot message: MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Campbell <david>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: brianw29, dougsland, gansalmon, gleb.evtushenko, itamar, kernel-maint, maurizio.antillon
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Description David Campbell 2009-11-05 20:45:12 UTC
Created attachment 367703 [details]
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Description of problem:

In the early booting process, this message appears on the boot console:

MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 12 Beta and all versions back to at least F7

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Boot F12 beta live CD on Clevo D870P
  
Actual results:

See message on console:  MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC

dmesg reports:

..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
..... (found apic 0 pin 0) ...


Expected results:

Clean boot

Additional info:

Bug 175784 seems the same issue applied to RHEL

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 15:10:45 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 2 gleb 2010-04-04 18:13:09 UTC
Fedora 12 (not beta). installed from Live CD.
motherboard: ASUS M2N

have the same problem : mp-bios bug 8254 timer not connected to io-apic

tried fix by 
1. add in grub: enable_8254_timer lapic_timer_c2_ok clocksource=hpet noapic
2. and try to disable ACPI APIC support in bios

but still have this problem. I can't work...

Comment 3 Brian Wright 2010-04-30 02:40:35 UTC
Fedora 12 installed from a DVD
System: HP Pavilion 511w

After using the system and receiving critical updates, when the system is rebooted the error "MP-BIOs bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" occurs. Then the message "ACPI: Invalid PBLK Length [5]" displays.

Sometimes after several reboots where the system is completely powered off, the system will boot successfuly. However, with every reboot the "ACPI: Invalid PBLK Length [5]" displays.

Comment 4 Brian Wright 2010-04-30 04:43:55 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Fedora 12 installed from a DVD
> System: HP Pavilion 511w
> After using the system and receiving ...

I have also noticed that the hard disk contained corruption. Unfortunately it was one of the primary files for starting the GUI that I had to reinstall from scratch.

Comment 5 John Dulaney 2010-07-01 17:04:48 UTC
Created attachment 428497 [details]
Proposal for fix.

I may try to find the maintainer for Grub and email this proposal directly to him/her.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 06:46:49 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 03:29:32 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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