On Sat, 21 May 2011, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>On 2011-05-21, Dave Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 May 2011, Paul M wrote:
>>
>>>On 20/05/2011, at 12:27 PM, Dave Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> FWIW I've encountered several ASUS notebooks which panic during boot
>>>> (in aml_parse or parse_aml, I can't remember which is correct); since
>>>
>>>aml_xparse
>>>
>>>> these are store demo machines I don't have any good way to capture the
>>>> detailed information (I'm booting from a USB stick and saving the dmseg
>>>> to the stick.) If there's some small amount of information that can be
>>>> gotten without any additional hardware, etc, and would help diagnose
>>>> these problems, I'll write it down and report it if someone tells me
>>>> exactly how to get it. The panic info is long enough that some of it
>>>> scrolls off the screen.
>>>
>>>I've tried such a laptop, booting from usb stick does indeed fail as
>>>you describe, however booting from the install cd (4.9 release) works
>>>just fine.
>>>
>>>Disabling acpi will allow the system to boot from the usb stick.
>>
>> Thanks for the info. I'll try disabling ACPI the next time I encounter
>> one of these.
>
>You need the information in the panic message and trace.
>If you want to help get the problems with those machines tracked
>down, you need to get that information, maybe take a photo and
>type it in from there.
>
>If the panic message itself has scrolled off "show panic"
>should show it again.
I'll see what I can do.
Dave
>The only way disabling ACPI is helpful, is if the machine saves the
>dmesg buffer between boots, then you may be able to get the panic,
>boot -c, disable acpi, and save the information.
>
>ACPI should not be disabled on modern machines, they are not
>meant to work that way.
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Dave Anderson
<[email protected]>
