Bug#470601: Debian Lenny-pre-RC1 on Virtual PC 2007 / unrecoverable processor error
reassign 470601 linux-2.6
retitle 470601 "Unrecoverable processor error" when running in VirtualPC, fixed upstream
thanks
Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Here's an update for my previous report.
>
> Newer kernel (maybe 2.6.24, and 2.6.26) reveals a bug in VirtualPC,
> where it fails to boot with the error message "An unrecoverable
> processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset
> now."
I'm reassigning the bug to the kernel team since it cannot be dealt by
us.
> This bug only occurs on the installed system (i.e not when booting
> debian-installer). An easy work-around is to add "noreplace-paravirt" to
> the boot command line.
Humm, interesting ...
> A patch was applied upstream (for 2.6.27) to solve this problem. see
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122090760532385&w=2
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=28f7e66fc1da53997a545684b21b91fb3ca3f321
Could this be backported? This is a very simple fix and I believe it
is worth a backport. Kernel Team?
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