Bug 608214

Summary: Firmware/Hardware Error during Boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Danny Stieben <dmaxel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: anton, dcantrell, dougsland, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Danny Stieben 2010-06-26 04:34:57 UTC
Description of problem: During boot (after BIOS has loaded but before the Fedora loading splash screen) a message comes up that says:

"[Firmware Warn]: MTRR: CPU0: SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] not cleared by BIOS. Clearing this bit"

Then about two seconds later it says something again. It disappears really fast, so I couldn't get the whole thing, but it said "softreset failed" in there. Then it continues to the splash screen. I know this isn't exactly a hindering problem as I am not a developer, but I would like to make all possible problems visible.


Additional info: Since it mentions something about CPU0, I'll give some hardware specs...

Acer Aspire 6530 (Laptop)
AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core QL-62

I'll gladly give any other info if needed.

*I didn't know what component this is related to, so I just chose distribution*

Comment 1 Danny Stieben 2010-06-30 07:39:18 UTC
Tried reading that second line again, and I managed to pick this out:

[blahblahblah] softreset failed (device not ready)

Where blahblahblah is a tiny bit at the beginning that I still couldn't read because it went away so fast.

Comment 2 Danny Stieben 2010-10-16 23:02:45 UTC
Just wanted to bump this bug because it still exists for me.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2011-06-01 15:33:30 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 18:57:28 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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