Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

[John <20090112@js.id.au>]

John wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:

> Ah, so. It's the DVD image.

It's different, but not satisfactory.

I'm copying by hand atm, I'll look at a serial cable (I think I can do 
that) later, so I will give a bare minimum for the moment.

Security framework initialized
SELinux diasbled at boot
Capability LSM initialized
Initializing xgroup subsys ns
                           cpuacct
                           devices
CPU: L1 cache 64K etc
CPU: L2 cache 512K etc
CPU: Amd Athlon (tm) Dual Core Processor 4450B stepping 02
checking HLT instruction ... ok
general protection fault: 3edc [#1]
Modules linked in:

Pid 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.26-1-486 #1)
EIP 0060:[<c03633f0d>] EFLAGS 00000286 CPU: 0
EIP is at 0xc0363f0d

I will leave off now, lots of hex numbers which I'm likely to mistranscribe.

It ends with kernel panic - not syncing -: Attempted to kill the idle task!

Oh, the top item on the call trace:
[<c0107a71>] apply_paravirt+0x81/0x91.
and it's called from vgacon_set_cursor_size.