http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11785


[EMAIL PROTECTED] changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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      KernelVersion|linux-2.6.27.1              |2.6.23.1, 2.6.25.5, 2.6.27.1
            Summary|boot hang - unless "nolapic"|boot hang - unless "nolapic"
                   |- Asus M3N                  |- Asus M3N, Asus M300N




------- Comment #19 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-11-12 00:47 -------
These messages from comment #18
suggest your slow-down may be related to MTRR bogosity:

Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel: WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all
of memory, losing 7MB of RAM.
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel: WARNING: at
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:1558 mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x366/0x381()
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel: Modules linked in:
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted
2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb #1
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c0382b32>] ? printk+0x18/0x1e
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c0131084>] warn_on_slowpath+0x54/0x80
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c0385323>] ?
_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x40
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c0131919>] ?
release_console_sem+0x1b9/0x1d0
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c0131cf8>] ? vprintk+0x188/0x3f0
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c04c36f0>] ?
e820_update_range_map+0x1bb/0x236
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c04c6daf>]
mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x366/0x381
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c04c1746>] setup_arch+0x50c/0xaf6
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c0131919>] ?
release_console_sem+0x1b9/0x1d0
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c014aa5a>] ? down_trylock+0x2a/0x40
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c0131cf8>] ? vprintk+0x188/0x3f0
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c04c405f>] ? __reserve_early+0x98/0x149
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c04ba4d8>] start_kernel+0x63/0x354
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c04ba10a>] ? reserve_ebda_region+0x69/0x7f
Nov  3 21:40:22 localhost kernel:  [<c04ba099>] __init_begin+0x99/0xa1

re: nolapic needed
at this point, it seems that adding a DMI entry
to diable the lapic on this box is the way to go.
We'll need the dmidecode from the 2nd BIOS as well as the one above.


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