Re: oops with config_pnpbios enabled.

[Jens Benecke]

Flavio Bruno Leitner wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Updating to 2.6.1 two machines returns a oops during boot.
> They can boot if disable CONFIG_PNPBIOS.
> 
> AFAIK, PNPBIOS is important to get some areas that are
> reserved by BIOS, so I think leaving this option disabled
> is a mistake.
> 
> I will compile 2.6.0 asap to check if this happens too.

I had this problem since 2.6.0-test11 (first one I tried), on my laptop.
I posted about this here as well. I was told to disable PNPBIOS and
LOCAL_APIC, which worked (so far).

All the desktops (three) I've tried so far didn't have a problem with or
without PNPBIOS.



-- 
Jens Benecke
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