Bug 206513

Summary:	IBM Netvista Machine
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	John Gleeson <jhn_gleeson>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	SUSE Technical Services	Services Priority:	500
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Hwinfo output for IBM

Description John Gleeson 2006-09-18 16:24:25 UTC

Cd's Will not install on this machine- fails at Cd 1.
Thing's that were tried:
Load's kernel then bring's up a black screen with text on it and fails saying

Prefetch Window =disabled
Net Recognised protocol family 2

This message is given with the following:
ide=generic
irqpoll
acpi off
nolapic
safesettings
textmode install
I have enclosed a copy of may hwinfo output:

Comment 1 John Gleeson 2006-09-18 16:35:59 UTC

Created attachment 98974 [details]
Hwinfo output for IBM

Hwinfo output for IBM Machine

Comment 2 John Gleeson 2006-09-19 15:26:31 UTC

These are the last two lines of out put before the install hang's.

  PREFETCH window: disabled
Net Recognised protocol family 2

The other lines visible on the boot screen looked unsuspicious so I DIDN't copy them. Tell me if you need more.

This happens on every attempt to boot.


Additional info: SUSE Linux 10.2 and also 10.2 alpha2 did install fine.

Comment 3 John Gleeson 2006-09-19 17:56:04 UTC

Problem work around found if you type at the boot option screen maxcpus=0 the install will go but only run in text mode.

Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-10-03 06:56:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 202079 ***

Comment 5 Dominik Jais 2006-10-10 15:42:33 UTC

*** Bug 210978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Dominik Jais 2006-10-27 13:44:51 UTC

maxcpus still not included as bootparameter in beta1, no install possible.

Comment 7 Dominik Jais 2006-10-27 13:47:21 UTC

withouth the bootoption maxcpus=0 it is not possible to install on old machines, this is not solved within beta1 but marked as solved in dublicates

Comment 8 Thomas Renninger 2007-01-11 13:38:53 UTC

Can you try acpi=force (this one first) and/or apic boot parameter, pls.

If acpi=force helps, can you provide dmidecode info (or tell us whether it fails).

Comment 9 Thomas Renninger 2007-01-13 14:10:17 UTC

Sorry forget my last comment...
I will have to dig. Andi can you help here, pls.
There seem to be dozens of machines needing maxcpus=0 boot param, only this one has a lot duplicates.
Also other strange things might occur, see:
Bug #231149 - Thinkpad T23 hangs under load
here maxcpus=0 also seem to help and there are others...

Comment 10 Thomas Renninger 2007-01-19 09:46:52 UTC

John: You have a Pentium III built in 2000, right?

Your machine should hit this line:
	/* All Intel BIOS since 1998 assumed APIC on. Don't include 1998 itself
	   because we're not sure for that. */
	if (vendor && !strncmp(vendor, "Intel", 5))
		apic = 1;

But it seems the vendor tag in dmi information does not match "Intel"?
Can you please attach dmidecode output.

It would also be helpful if you could attach dmesg with maxcpus=0 (this one works fine, right?). The blacklisting (auto apic/acpi off) should still be hit, but possibly PIC is setup in another way makes your machine work?

I think there are more problems with APIC and SMP kernel on older machines, therefore there are so many (x86, x86_64,..) machines that seem to have (non-)APIC problems. A lot bugs that are marked as duplicates probably are not and I start loosing the overview, let's figure out one by one...

Comment 11 Thomas Renninger 2007-03-05 18:04:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 232013 ***