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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:16:24 +0700
Brian Durant
Here are some oddities that I have spotted in the kernel log, in my boot log. I am using SuSE 7.3 Pro on a box with an Award BIOS/Soyo Dragon Plus! motherboard.
The first is regarding APIC, which is why I recompiled the kernel, i.e. I wanted to get the computer to shutdown when I tell SuSE to shutdown:
<4>Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. <4>Found and enabled local APIC!
Another thing with APIC is:
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz enableapic vga=0x0317 disableapic ide=nodma apm=off
Why enable apic and then disable apic and the reverse above?
The second odditiy is more worrying seen with my eyes (or is it just me???):
<4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 5376 <4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 5376
Any ideas from the list?
Well, I'm not sure of WHY , but I have the same messages, and run without problems. I think APIC is important for assigning shared pci irqs. It's better to let linux handle it, than the bios. So people have recommended to disable it in bios. The FAT message is probably some obscure reference to the differences between linux mkdosfs and windows fdisk. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}