On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Armin Schindler wrote:
> maybe someone who knows more about x86 can explain
> what is happening when the Kernel does
> "Checking 'hlt' instruction" ?
>
> This part just executes a few 'hlt's
> which causes a hang on my STPC. So I think
> something was not setup correctly
> (timer, irq, ...) ?
This usually means you are not getting timer interrupts. This is a common
problem. On the other hand it could just be an STPC thing. It is odd that
you get through the timer test and fail in the halt test.
> When I disable this check in the kernel,
> *everything* works perfectly.
woo hoo!
> Maybe I need to init some hardware (which linuxbios code
> do), I thought I don't need for bootup ?
are you sure you're getting timer interrupts right?
ron
