Re: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quadPentium Pro system
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Apr 22 2011 - 22:04:44 EST
On 04/22/2011 06:28 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote:
>
> This is a stupid BIOS, but do you know if it used E820 in the old kernel?
> I wonder if this has something to do with the changes made to support ACPI 3.0 changes to E820?
> This would be easy to diagnose with DOS DEBUG with no himem.sys loaded.
>
> Yuhong Bao
>
I suspect this broke during the rewrite of the setup code to C in 2007.
-hpa
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