[PlanetCCRMA] Likewise freeze on boot with new FC2 kernel

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Dec 29 10:42:01 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:35, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 11:16, nigel henry wrote:
> > Did a dist-upgrade today and got the new kernel 2.6.9-2.2 rdt.rhfc2 ccrma and 
> > some other stuff, alsa upgrades etc. Boot gets to. Booting kernel, then 
> > Initialisation, the a screen full of.
> > Bug: Scheduling while atomic: IRQ14/0x00000001/297.
> 
> Well, it looks like the kernel is hitting a bug in your particular
> combination of hardware. Sorry. Most probably you'll have to wait for a
> newer version (looks like Ingo is on vacation). What is on IRQ14? You
> could look at the interrupts while booting on another kernel with:
>   cat /proc/interrupts
> 
> Try booting without acpi (add "acpi=off" to the kernel boot line in
> grub, before the redhat graphical boot incantation if it is there). 

You could also try disabling preemption of interrupts by adding to the
kernel boot line these two options:

  hardirq_preempt=0 softirq_preempt=1

-- Fernando