Thanks for the reply, Shane. VT-d is enabled in the BIOS; in fact, the
BIOS automatically enables VT-d when TXT is enabled.

I don't know of anything I would do in any grub configuration file to
enable VT-d for tboot and SINIT. Do you have any suggestions?

Hal

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Shane Wang<shane.w...@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Hal
>
> The error code means VTd is disabled.
> Is your VT-d enabled in your new BIOS and grub.conf?
>
> Thanks.
> Shane
>
> Hal Finney wrote:
>>
>> I haven't run tboot in a while, but I'm trying it on my HP dc7800 and
>> finding it hangs in GETSEC[SENTER]. This is even true with old
>> versions of tboot that used to work. My system has no USB ports
>> plugged in, and no hardware changes.
>>
>> The one change is I recently updated my BIOS. I suspect this has to be
>> the cause. One nice thing about the new BIOS is that the tboot hang
>> actually reboots the machine with the ERRORCODE register intact. Its
>> value is c00020a1. This is progress code 0ah, error code 1000,
>> meaning: "device scope of VT-d DMAR ACPI table is invalid". Not clear
>> what this means.
>>
>> My log is attached, including the hang and the relaunch of tboot. This
>> is version 20090330 of tboot. Thanks very much -
>>
>> Hal Finney
>
>

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