https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |bwalle@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 User bwalle@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172#c4 Bernhard Walle changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |keith.goggin@bigpond.com --- Comment #4 from Bernhard Walle 2008-10-11 09:17:50 MDT --- (In reply to comment #2 from Keith Goggin)

Thats fine by me it's only a minor glitch but it's not a good look for openSUSE. Also I wonder how much it would cost Novell to have a few test machines representative of the major hardware out there. I would have thought my Athlon 64 x2 processor/AMD 690G chipset would be reasonably common and could be configured for the test bench for less than Euro 200.

It does not only depend on the CPU and chipset but also on the mainboard, all used devices, the memory configuration and the BIOS if kexec works or not. But please attach hwinfo, and I try to find a machine that matches your machine as close as possible and if I can reproduce your problem there, I can try to debug that issue. (In reply to comment #3 from Keith Goggin)

It seems to me that the problem is related to acpi and I suggest, possibly as an enhancement, you try the following for amd x86_64 hardware:-

kexec -l <kernel-image> --append="acpi=off"

We cannot disable ACPI by default on all x86_64 machines.

See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec.html for more info.

I don't see any information about ACPI there. BTW: The right thing would be kexec -l <kernel-image> --append="$(cat /proc/cmdline) acpi=off" because we need some other command line parameters like the root device to boot properly. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 User bwalle@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172#c6 Bernhard Walle changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |keith.goggin@bigpond.com --- Comment #6 from Bernhard Walle 2008-10-12 01:29:57 MDT --- (In reply to comment #5 from Keith Goggin)

Also if you can suggest how I might patch the installation DVD to add acpi=off to the invocation of kexec I would be happy to run the test here for you.

Just boot with "acpi=off" (at the CD boot prompt). The parameter will be passed to the bootloader configuration of the installation and to kexec. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 User bwalle@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172#c8 Bernhard Walle changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |keith.goggin@bigpond.com --- Comment #8 from Bernhard Walle 2008-10-12 07:36:03 MDT --- I think that's visible in the YaST logs. Please attach them (see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST how to do it). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 Bernhard Walle changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |ASSIGNED Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 User nordhaus@informatik.hu-berlin.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172#c11 --- Comment #11 from Stefan Nordhausen 2008-11-02 08:13:10 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=249272) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=249272) Screenshot of the kernel panic -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 User keith.goggin@bigpond.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172#c14 --- Comment #14 from Keith Goggin 2008-11-17 01:30:01 MST --- Same again in Beta5. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434172 Tony Jones changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.