f19alpha, hang "booting a command list"

[John Reiser]

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] [10de:0407] (rev a1)

A very ordinary card, somewhat older.

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>> What does F18 say in syslog /var/log/messages regarding any 'conflict's
>> in address space during initialization of the linux kernel?
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> Not sure. Conflict comes up in the context of the fb and nouveau, which has always been a message with this video adapter.  These are excerpts with the word conflict in them:
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> Apr 25 20:20:07 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x000000000000efa0-0x000000000000efbf SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20120711/utaddress-251)
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> 	• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20120711/utaddress-251)
> 	• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
> 	• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000053f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20120711/utaddress-251)
> 	• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
> 	• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich

I can't tell how important this is.

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> The whole thing is here:
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> http://pastebin.com/8y2C3kp0

Eek! The BIOS-e820 shows a severely fragmented memory map (lines 6 through 81).
Which BIOS manufacturer, and what is the date?  You are booting (U)EFI, right?


> This strikes me as either a GRUB problem, or a dracut/initramfs problem, because a 3.9.x kernel and initramfs built on f18 boots OK. So I don't know that this is even really a kernel problem.

I'd bet on GRUB.

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