Bug#340870: Kernel-image 2.6.14-2-amd64-generic panic on boot

[matt.nottingham@zen.co.uk]

Frederik Schueler writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:17:46PM +0000, matt.nottingham@zen.co.uk wrote:
 > > Kernel panic - not syncing: PCI DMA: High address but no IOMMU
 > 
 > Did you activate the IOMMU in the bios?

I can't see any option with that name (or anything similar in the
BIOS). 2.6.12-1 boots fine with same BIOS settings.

 > > It also does this with version 2.6.14.1.
 > > 
 > > The computer is a ASUS Nforce4 motherboard with an S939 3800+ AMD64 in
 > > it, with 4 gigs of RAM, RAID1 SATA disks. It boots happily with
 > > 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic
 > 
 > You should run the amd64-k8 flavour on this system, the amd64-generic
 > kernel is intended for the installer only and lacks certain
 > optimizations.

(It wouldn't make installation easy!)

2.6.14.2-amd64-k8 panics in same way.

 > 
 > 
 > Best regards
 > Frederik Schueler
 > 
 > -- 
 > ENOSIG

Thanks,

Matt