Bug 41353
| Summary: | Poweroff crashes just before it should power down | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <per.johansson> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-05-21 20:06:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-05-19 13:09:36 UTC
Since I'm not seeing this on any of my machines, I assume it's a bug in your BIOS and older kernels had a workaround. In any case, this looks like it happens when the kernel tries to power off the machine, reassigning. Can you try adding "apm=realmode" to the lilo prompt? (type <ctrl key>-X on the graphical screen and type "linux apm=realmode") Hi! Thanks for the tip - it works a bit better now. I have now also added append="amd=realmode" to lilo.conf. After this workaround, it says "stopping all MD-devices" and then "Power down"; but after that, the computer just halts (since it's realmode it doesn't power down). Reboot works OK though. My computer is a Hyrican from Delix (which is now owned by RedHat!) and the BIOS is from Award Software (which is now Phoenix?). I can't find BIOS-upgrades for Linuxusers and this machine has been running Linux from the very start. I don't want to install Windows just for upgrading my BIOS. Does anyone know how to upgrade the BIOS in Linux? I have never done such a thing in Linux. And where can I find ROM-files??? Anyway, thank you very much! I feel a bit more comfortable now when it doesn't flood the screen with strange numbers. If it could be to any help, the numbers looks (looked) like this: [ <FFFF00000> ] Best Regards, Per Johansson That should be "apm=realmode" of course... Regards, Per Johansson Without the exact numbers, it's hard to make a suggestion. What's the text next to 'EIP:'? notting: This is the bios oopsing.. Buggy bios :) Hi! Yup - it looks like the BIOS is the one to blame. I can't find anything in the kernel that would produce that output. The numbers were all different and just kept flooding the screen. I didn't se any kind of text prior to the number flood. So after "stopping all md devices" the output on the screen was simply [ <52657821> ][ <fe40c239> ] ... And the list went on and on and on and on and.... I couldn't see a "Kernel Panic" or anything like that. However - i did not see the text "Power down", so obviously something happens just before that. I have now found .bin files to my BIOS but they require Windows software for the installation:-( My computer has been Linux from the very start and don't feel like repartioning my hard drive just for that upgrade. Maybe there was some kind of workaround in the old kernel? Best Regards, Per Johansson All bioses I've seen so far require a MSDOS program to flash it. FreeDos on a bootfloppy does that just fine ;) I've made apm=realmode the default for your bios; a kernel with this should appear in rawhide shortly. |