On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Marco Peereboom <[email protected]> wrote: > These desktops seem very problematic. I know of people that have > abandoned it altogether. > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:59PM +0800, David S. wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> unfortunately my newly acquired Lenovo Desktop, Model Number A5790R >> will Kernel Panic before during boot. The install of i386 4.6 itself >> goes fine. I tried to boot with acpi disabled, to no avail. Also i >> played around with various settings in the BIOS pertaining to certain >> CPU Features and S-ATA Features, like EHCI, Compatible, Legacy IDE, >> etc, all no help. >> >> Please find attached the output of my Serial Console Session which >> shows the Kernel Panic output, ps and trace. I could not run trace on >> the other CPU, as issuing a machdep 1 hangs the Machine completely. >> >> In case someone can help me out, id be very grateful. Also, please >> snip out all the below output in replies so it looks nicer in the >> thread :-) >> >> Thanks and best regards, >> David S. >> >> >> --- Boot until Panic --- >> snip >> --- END of Mail >> >
It seems they really have some issues, but hopefully someone takes heart and fixes / improves them :-) In the past, i have had great success with OpenBSD & IBM / Lenovo, especially of course on Laptops eg. Thinkpads. I have another one of these Desktops, same Brand - slightly older model, which throws a different error, but also panics on boot. Will document it tomorrow
