On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:39 -0700, Peter J. Verschoor wrote: [...] > This system started life as a Squeeze install and then upgraded to Wheezy. > That is when I found that the 3.1 kernel would not boot. I used the 2.6.32 > Squeeze kernel to download and install the 3.0 kernel which booted fine. I > then installed the 3.0 and 3.1 kernel sources. After much searching I found > that the error was coming from the new code added to the pci_irq.c in linux- > source-3.1/drivers/acpi/. That code is trying to reroute the IRQ from 51 to > 19 > which is used by one of the USB ports. Since the reroute fails the driver > can't find the hard drives and the system won't boot. I then added the > "pci=noioapicreroute" to the grub.cfg boot command line and the system came up > and has been running nicely for about 48 hours.
Please can you provide the kernel log for booting with this option (this
will be in /var/log/dmesg). If possible, also provide the kernel log
for the boot failure without this option, using a serial console.
> This is definitely an upstream problem as the same problem occurred on another
> DL380 G4 with OpenSUsE 12 and there are reports on the Ubuntu and Fedora
> message boards.
>
> I can't get to bugzilla.kernel.org to report it there (maybe because of the
> hacking problem a while back) but maybe somebody that reads this knows who to
> forward the problem to.
Right, bugzilla.kernel.org has not yet been restored.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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