Bug#467534: linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64: Kernel, including install CD, doesn't boot on Intel DQ35JO motherboards
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1
Severity: important
The amd64 Debian (Etch, possibly others too) installation CD doesn't boot
on Intel DQ35JO motherboards, at least with Core-2-Duo CPUs. Google finds
several reports of this roblem too. Same holds for the installed kernel,
and for any vanilla kernel.org kernel. The problem is in the
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG kernel parameter. It doesn't seem to work on these
systems. Either disabling it at compile time, or specifying "pci=nommconf"
on the kernel command line fixes the problem. Therefore, one can either
choose to switch this option completely off in the kernel, or at the very
least, mention the problem and the "pci=nommconf" solution among
"supported alternative ways of booting the CD".
Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64 depends on:
ii cor 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities
ii deb 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii e2f 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii ini 0.85h tools for generating an initramfs
ii mod 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64 recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-6-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-6-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-6-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-6-amd64: false
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-6-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-6-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-6-amd64: false
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-6-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-6-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-6-amd64:
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