kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i586 kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.i586 http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/web/200029.html Intermittently (10-20%) when booting this VIA based thin client, panics very early in hpet_late_init. nohpet seems to avoid the problem. Other distributions are reportedly not seeing this issue, so this might be a relatively new kernel bug.
http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/via-i586-hpet-panic.jpg Photo of panic
Created attachment 259061 [details] lspci -v
davej suggested assigning this to tglx.
The code dump at the bottom of the page doesn't match the i586 kernel at all. 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 is a NOP [leal 0(esi),esi]
> davej suggested assigning this to tglx. /me grumbles :) Warren, "Intermittently (10-20%) when booting this VIA based thin client, panics very early in hpet_late_init." Can you please provide the full boot log from one of the other (80-90%) successful boots ? Further it might be helpful, if you could capture the boot of a crash via serial console. Please add earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 to the kernel command line and connect the box to a second one with a null modem cable. On the second box please capture the output of the kernel. Thanks, tglx
I will have physical access to it again tomorrow.
More info is available in the newer bug, including full oops captures. Why a NOP instruction could cause a divide error is a real mystery... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 394981 ***