Bug#268208: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp: 2.6.8 smp kernel fails to gunzip initrd and hangs at APIC stage on i865

["Jon Thackray" <jgt@pobox.com>]

maximilian attems writes:
 > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jon Thackray wrote:
 > 
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 > > maximilian attems writes:
 > >  > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jon Thackray wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > System has Intel 865 MB, P4/3400, 2Gb RAM, five discs including
 > >  > > one SCSI and one SATA. It worked fine with the 2.6.5 kernel, but the 
 > >  > > 2.6.8 kernel won't boot.
 > >  > 
 > >  > did you try booting with append "acpi=off"?
 > > 
 > > No. I don't know what apic is. How should I modified the grub menu.lst
 > > to do that? I can probably reboot the machine in a few days to try
 > > that. I've attached a successful 2.6.5 boot dmesg.
 > 
 > apic != acpi
 > you'll find more about in kernel sources in Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt
 > 
 > doesn't grub(8) has a nice man, i don't use it but something like this
 > should work (make shure to have your correct root partition there):
 > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off
 >  
 > hope that helps, if not you may want to try 2.6.10 from unstable.
 > best regards

Here's the failure mode from the 2.6.8 kernel, as best I can copy it

checking if image is in initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4696k freed
NET: registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10, entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326

So, I'll try your suggestion (acpi=off), but I'd be interested to know
if the real error is the initrd ungzip failure)

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