Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Serious problem with new kernel?

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 06/18/2003 01:19:46 PM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> >I just booted my new DL ISO in VMware, compiled yesterday with the
>new
>> >kernel.  During bootup, after the message:
>> >
>> >"Searching for Devil-Linux CDROM"
>> >
>> >I get a page full of "hda: lost interrupt" messages, intermixed wit=
h
>> >a few  "hda: DMA interrupt recover" messages.
>> >
>> >It's still trying to boot...
>>
>> I booted it yesterday within VMWare and had no problems, I'm still
>using
>> Vmware 3.1
>> I'll upload a new testing release and test it on a real computer lat=
er
>> today.
>
>I burned my ISO to a real CDRW, and it booted fine on a real PC.
>
>I've been doing a lot of google'ing around, and there is a LOT of talk=

>of this problem, which appears to only effect certain IDE controllers.=

>
>The "work-around" seems to be to turn off the kernel option:
>CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC   "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
>
>So I ran "make menuconfig" in tmp/linux-2.4.21, turned it off, then:
>cd ../../scripts/
>./build.sh build opt=3Dlinux
>./build.sh install opt=3Dlinux
>cd ..
>rm tmp/.done_iso_100_build-iso
>make iso
>
>and now VMware-4 boots fine from my ISO image.  :-)
>
>CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC appears in the files:
>scripts/config/config_linux.up  (and .smp)
>
>Should someone upload a "fix"?

Is there a patch available?
When yes, add it to the file kernel-patches.tar.gz  (ok it's currently
empty).
The patch will then be applied during the build process.

Heiko
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