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Re: debian kernel bugs / or is it grub?



On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:15:35AM +0800, Richard van der Veen wrote:
> Hi
> I am not sure how to send  a bug report about this because it seems to
> be in several different kernels from Debian. (maybe it even is not
> kernel specific but it's grub which is doing something wrong.)
> 
> When i replaced my ATA DVD writer with an SATA DVD writer and placed
> another ATA harddisk on the connector, i got in my selfbuild kernel(*1
> an OOPS. This made me decide to re-install debian. I downloaded a
> daily-build netinstall CD from Lenny and wanted to convert that to Sid
> - because that is my normal debian 'outfit' on the computer.  With the
> installation everything went smoothly, but when i rebooted the
> computer crashed/hanged on booting the kernel. The message on the
> screen was:
> --
> PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@90000000 for 0000:01:00
> Loading , please wait....
> ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free.
> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free.
> ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
> --
> hang

what happens if you pull that dvd drive and boot? Looks to me like
you've got a nasty hardware conflict going on. I'd start with some
easy swaps like pulling that drive and then move up to futzing with
the bios.

its not much, but I hth.

A

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