On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 21:34 +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > On 12/27/2010 09:36 PM, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > > Grub command lines are identical except that "lapic hpet=force" in > > normal boot is substituted by "single" in recovery mode. > > I've found that if i remove "lapic" from the command line, then the NMI > error appears. And in fact that paramter it's not present in recovery mode. > In my laptop, lapic has to be used (as told in kernel logs) because it > is disabled by BIOS. > > Googling around i've learned that NMI watchdog needs a local APIC and > that explain the error message. Even if the exact meaning of that > message is obscure to me yet. > > Feel free to mark this bug as a duplicate of #599368 and close it. > Then add +1 to what Michael Biebl already asked: why that message should > be showed? Because the watchdog feature was enabled at compile-time and you presumably want it to work. If you add 'nowatchdog' to the kernel parameters then the kernel will not attempt to set up the watchdog, and the error message will not appear. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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