[Core2Test3] Installation - No Fedora Core CD
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Sun May 2 12:47:40 UTC 2004
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 04:39:23AM -0700, Stefan Lecho wrote:
> Using the proposed solution in the release notes
> (pci=off idel=0x180,0x386), leads to the following
> error message: "EIP is at pci_read 0x1a/0x21 ...
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init"
Duplicated.
The PCI layer in test3 is being called even when PCI methods are
not available:
pcibios_irq_init
pirq_peer_trick
.. boom
This prevents installation on things like older sony Vaio boxes. Someone
broke the handling of machines without PCI between test2 and test3.
Alan
More information about the test
mailing list