MP-BIOS bug 8254

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> Trying to get Fedora 11 Preview installed on a Tyan S2885 and I'm 
> running into this at boot time after updating from rawhide:
>
> MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!  Boot with 
> apic=debug and send a report.   Then try booting with the 'noapic' 
> option.
>
> So far I've tried the apic=debug and noapic options with no luck.  
> Also tried disabling the one APIC option in BIOS (v2.08) and that also 
> had no effect.  The system either kernel panics or just hangs with 
> just a blinking cursor at the top left of the screen.  The first 
> kernel that installed from the DVD (2.6.29.1-102.fc11.x86_64) runs 
> with no problems, but 2.6.29.1-111.fc11.x86_64 won't boot at all.
>
> This system has been running on Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 9 without any 
> issues like this at all.  Never got F10 installed on it.
>
Notice this after upgraded an old Toshiba labtop to F11 preview never 
saw this on F10 thou and
the kernel did not panic.

JBG
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