Has the 11.2 RC2 kernel stolen a CPU?

[Akoellh]

Originally Posted by hcvv

Hehe. Did that allready two days ago. Same boot loop.

No surprises there, just wanted to be sure.

Originally Posted by hcvv

I am still a bit more involved in the problem then you and thought of it first

Obviously.

Originally Posted by hcvv

But nevertheless thank you for being with me in these difficult times.

Interesting problems draw attention automatically.

Originally Posted by hcvv

What do you think, I did not hear from kernel bugzilla since thuesday. Would carefull asking if something is going on there be appreciated?

Good question and difficult to answer, but maybe try the psychological way.

Just write you also had the idea to try maxcpus=2 in order to see if it gives you that loop, too and you got the expected result.

This shows your involvement in the process and will "push" the thread with some more information, even if it is something quite obvious.

Originally Posted by hcvv

P.S. Nice shirt in the avatar, mirrors your mood I think.

I thought about two other ones first, but they didn't look that good when resized to the maximum the forum allows.

http://www.p0stwh0res.com/images/yoda-rtfm.jpg

and

http://www.k-oo.de/blog/wp-content/u.../05/lart_2.jpg

(The infamous "L.A.R.T of nine tails")

[hcvv]

Originally Posted by Akoellh

Good question and difficult to answer, but maybe try the psychological way.

Just write you also had the idea to try maxcpus=2 in order to see if it gives you that loop, too and you got the expected result.

This shows your involvement in the process and will "push" the thread with some more information, even if it is something quite obvious.

Good idea! I will wait till tomorrow because I have more time then to dedicate to the problem.

Originally Posted by Akoellh

I thought about two other ones first, but they didn't look that good when resized to the maximum the forum allows.

http://www.p0stwh0res.com/images/yoda-rtfm.jpg

and

http://www.k-oo.de/blog/wp-content/u.../05/lart_2.jpg

(The infamous "L.A.R.T of nine tails")

I think indeed that both will loose a lot of their impact when on Avatar size. I am also afraid that the pun of "the *** of nine tails" will be lost to a lot of non native english speakers.

[lwfinger]

On 11/05/2009 05:06 AM, hcvv wrote:

> What do you think, I did not hear from kernel bugzilla since thuesday.
> Would carefull asking if something is going on there be appreciated?

It would likely be counter productive. One thing I just noticed is
that the bug is not reported as a regression. It should have been, but
I expect that the person that keeps track of regressions will find it.
Just in case he doesn't, I'll ping him.

When you removed the "splash=silent", it seems that nothing showed on
the console before it crashed back into the BIOS. Is that correct?

[hcvv]

Originally Posted by lwfinger

When you removed the "splash=silent", it seems that nothing showed on
the console before it crashed back into the BIOS. Is that correct?

Correct, just a black screen until it goes to "monitor sleeping" for half a second, then it shows the HP splash (from the BIOS I guess) and starts booting.

Same as when I put in several other media with a newer kernel (at least newer then 10.3) like: Live CD 11.2 M7 and Install DVD 11.2 RC1. IIRC I had a similar problem with the Install DVD 11.1. I got them loadng all using one of the F5 options on the bootscreen. I know for sure that even that did not help with 11.1 in VM on 10.3.

[jengelh]

Originally Posted by Camaleón

hcvv wrote:

> Code:
> --------------------
> [ 0.000000] Transmeta TransmetaCPU

Uh?

Yours is no a Transmeta CPU, it's an Intel Dual Core :-?

Greetings,

--
Camaleón

No, that is a line from the list of supported vendor extensions. Of course all of this is confusing when posters only show us half their dmesg because they thought it's smart to run grep or something. If the first line is not "Linux $version_here (geeko@buildhost)" who knows what has been stripped.

As for the linked ub* post, someone obviously seemed to have compiled a kernel with only generic-x86 and Transmeta support.

[hcvv]

Originally Posted by jengelh

No, that is a line from the list of supported vendor extensions. Of course all of this is confusing when posters only show us half their dmesg because they thought it's smart to run grep or something. If the first line is not "Linux $version_here (geeko@buildhost)" who knows what has been stripped.

That is allready understood. When you see the kernel bugzilla (link above) you will see the latest information about this problem. It is now seem as a regression. Hope something comes out of this.

[mvoni99]

I'm having the exact same problem with a Core 2 Quad CPU. Worked great with Ubuntu and Opensuse 11.1 but not with 11.2.

Trying different kernel modifications to get it working. Need the nolapic flag in grub or I end up with an unbootable system as well.

Looking forward to see if this thread might give me some clues.

[hcvv]

Please mvoni99, could you go to Bug 14525 – Second CPU core (Intel) not found, Thinks it is a Transmeta, (register, when you are not registered allready) and add you information to the bugreport. When possible with information about your system (make, type, CPU-type, etc.). That may help them to find the bug in the kernel.

[mvoni99]

Just wanted to let you know I fixed this problem on my computer by doing a bios flash and using the noapic rather than the nolapic flag in grub

[hcvv]

That is nice, but what computer, what BIOS? I have checked the HP web site of my system and there is no BIOS update there. Or do I complete misunderstand what you did (I am not that good in understanding semi hardware things liike flashing BIOSes)?