Bug#463606: Linux 2.6.24 fails to boot on MS Virtual PC 2007

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:37:33PM -0500, Graham wrote:
> This image is failing to boot on my Virtual PC 2007. I will attach a
> screen capture, and also a best-effort transcription.
> 
> ----
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> 
> BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000
>      EDI 00000000  ESI 00001000  EBP 00000020  ESP c0373f54
>      EBX c03e5140  EDX 00000006  ECX 00000000  EAX c034f3e0
>      err 00000000  EIP c0389390   CS 00000060  flg 00000082
> Stack: 00000000 00100000 00001800 c039a9ec c03b934c c0373fe8 c03800c8 c039a9ec
>        c037d0b8 00000083 00000000 c0304c0f 00000000 00000871 c039a9ec c03b934c
>        c0373fe8 00000871 c039a9ec c03b934c c0373fe8 c037d4ef c0304a56 000000bf
> ----

This is no Linux error message, it looks like firmware provided.
Interrupt 6 means invalid opcode. Either the emulation is incomplete or
Linux uses a CR2 accessing operation which is invalid sometimes.

Bastian

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