Bug 82562 - Installer kernel hangs on boot
Summary: Installer kernel hangs on boot
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: phoebe
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 79579
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-23 12:38 UTC by Miloš Komarčević
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-20 20:23:41 UTC
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Description Miloš Komarčević 2003-01-23 12:38:40 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The installer kernel hangs after booting from CD or floppy
on Tyan S1686S motherboard with a Pentium II CPU.

It happens after enabling the local APIC and the last 
message displayed is:

ESR: value before enabling vector: 00000004

Passing apic, noapic or noprobe options to the kernel
does not make a difference.

This problem is around since limbo. Is it really neccessary 
to have APIC support enabled by default in the installer kernel?


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from CD or floppy
2. Press enter at "boot:" prompt

    
Actual Results:  Kernel hangs
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-02-03 14:56:51 UTC 
newer kernels no longer have the APIC support compiled into the boot kernel...
Comment 2 Miloš Komarčević 2003-02-20 20:23:41 UTC 
phoebe3 install boots fine now, thanks
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