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 08:05:07PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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.

The EIP points into __alloc_bootmem_low[1], which does nothing fancy.

Bastian

[1]:
| c03890b6 T __alloc_bootmem_core
| c0389336 T __alloc_bootmem_low_node
| c0389358 T __alloc_bootmem_low
| c03893bf T __alloc_bootmem_nopanic
| c038940c T __alloc_bootmem
| c038943b T __alloc_bootmem_node

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