Bug#517193: linux-image-2.6.28-1-amd64 fails to boot on amd64

[Pol Bettinger <bugreport517193.debian@arvoreen.net>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Can you confirm whether this boot failure matches the bug filed upstream
> as <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12520>?  That bug has not
> yet been fixed in a stable release but is believed to be fixed in Linux
> 2.6.29.
>
> Ben.
>   
I can confirm having hit

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12520

Changing the "Max CPUID Value Limit" to disabled fixed this booting 
problem. There is a already a patch in mainline (kernel)  See this 
thread 
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/2f27b0fe76919496/3638e04e45c3824b?lnk=raot
Post from Ingo Molnar on 22.Jan
I will now try to use this patch on 2.6.28.

Sincerely
Pol