Bug#492751: Lenny beta 2 dies on boot up

[Tex <tex@tex-world.de>]

On Saturday, 16. August 2008 23:50:21 Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:53:34AM +0200, Tex wrote:
> > I had the same problem on the VIA Nehemiah (in my case: stepping 8, 1
> > GHz)
> >
> > as explained in this link
> >
> > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-07/msg11568.html
> >
> > this seems to be a problem of the via chip (something about stepping and
> > NOP's) in kernels above 2.6.22
> >
> > I installed the 2.6.22-3-486 from the lenny repository (via rescue mode
> > of the installer)
> >
> > kernel is now booting - some dma problems remain
> >
> > maybe there is a chance to choose the 2.6.22 image by default for the
> > buggy cpu
>
> From what I have read in this thread, the -486 flavour of 2.6.25
> (testing) or 2.6.26 (unstable) should work.  Could you please try to
> install them on a running system and tell us if they works?
>
> In that case, we probably need to select -486 on all CPU which have
> CentaurHauls as vendor_id.
> (in base-installer/kernel/i386.sh:arch_get_kernel_flavour)
>
> Cheers,

I did last night (2.6.25-2-486)... it works, as long an I choose the 486 
kernel
As I did not remove the 686 version before I updatet I also had the newest 686 
kernel  (2.6.25-2-686) installed and tried it - same problem, not booting

I installed the 2.6.22 kernel because there was no higher 486 on the 
netinstall image (did not activate network connection)

selecting -486 for this vendor-id will probably solve the issue