Last month I was on this list reporting difficulties with booting any kernels other then the kernel shipped with the SLES8 disks. The errors are described in the following quotes. The solution, it turned out, was to upgrade the BIOS on the HDAMB system board. The BIOS version 1.02 is now working, and I successfully updated the kernel. So, HDAMB users, a BIOS upgrade is highly recommended. Andi Kleen ak-at-suse.de |suse-amd64| wrote:
I installed the rpm, rebooted, and at the grub prompt added numa=off, exact same symptoms. I also tried vga=0 to see if I can see more, and again no difference. After the ACPI messages,
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1) ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
it stops. With vga=778, it prints also that it is switching to colour frame buffer device befor stopping. I can send you the boot.msg log from a successful boot of the -191 kernel, if you are interested.
I have an HDAMB running here and it works fine.
It needed numa=off iommu=memaper=1 on older kernels.
Also an BIOS upgrade is an good idea, the first BIOS I got was quite buggy and had several problems.
For the ACPI issues you can try acpi=off (don't use the failsafe option, only acpi=off)
-Andi
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