Re: Need fixing of a rebooting system

[Kevin Breit]

Chris Meadors wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:44, Kevin Breit wrote:
>
>  
>
> > /proc/cpuinfo says:
> >
> > model name:   Celeron (Coppermine)
> >
> > So my configuration for the first 5 main menu items that are enabled in 
> > makeconfig are:
> >
> > * Prompt for developer and/or incomplete code/drivers
> >  * Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly
> >  * Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware
> >
> > * Support for paging of anonymous memory
> >   * System V IPC
> >   * BSD Process Accounting
> >   * Sysctl support
> > * Subarchitecture Type (PC-compatible)
> > * Processor family (Pentium-II/Celeron(pre-Coppermine))
> >    
>
> You can pick the Pentium-III here, since you have a Coppermine core
> Celeron.  But this will almost surely not be any part of the solution to
> the problem.
>  
I didn't think it would make a difference.

> > * Preemptible Kernel
> > * Machine Check Exception
> > * /dev/cpu/microcode
> > * /dev/cpu/*/msr
> > * /dev/cpu/*/cpuid
> > * BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk
> >    
>
> I'd turn this off, just to see if it makes any change.  It says it is
> "believed to be safe", but it is experimental, and your controller BIOS
> almost surely does not support it.
>  
I turned this off.  I'll report my findings shortly.

> > * Power Management support
> >   *Full ACPI Support (minus the ASUS Laptop Extras and Toshiba Laptop 
> > Extras)
> >
> > Do you see anything in that list which I should look into ditching first?
> >    
>
> Other than the EDD setting, I see nothing.  What do you have in the next
> choice after ACPI, the APM stuff?
>  
I have all the ACPI stuff enabled and no APM enabled.  I do not have 
ACPI debuggging statements enabled.

> Also, can you see anything on the screen before it reboots?  There is
> nothing after "Uncompressing kernel..."?  Just boom, it reboots?
>  
It says Uncompressing kernel....................gives the message saying 
the uncompression is done and then reboots.  The time between finishing 
the uncompression and rebooting is about .1 sec.

> There isn't much that can trigger a reboot that early on.
>  
I figured that, which is why I am asking for help about where to disable 
things?

Thanks

Kevin Breit

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