[Voyage-linux] 0.5.2 Live-CD Kernel Panic

[Robert Rawlins - Think Blue]

Hey Gustin,

Thanks for the informative reply as ever, I appreciate it. I hate to admit this to you but we're primarily Windows users here so we simply use a notebook booted from the live-cd to build new compact flash cards with voyage, nothing more so performance on the odd occasion we do it is not really so important.

I thought it might be a kernel issue. I did read lots of people saying that I would be able to set the NOAPIC from the grub boot menu to get it up and running but I couldn't figure out how to get to the grub boot menu to make that entry? Do I have a key I need to mash as it's booting to get there?

Appreciate any further advice.

Rob

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From: Gustin Johnson [mailto:gustin at echostar.ca] 
Sent: 14 July 2009 18:05
To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] 0.5.2 Live-CD Kernel Panic

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Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
> 
> 
> I’ve had this issue for some time but today is the first time I’ve 
> sat down to look at it. We’re having trouble running Live CD 0.5.2 on
>  some our HP notebooks. During the process we get the following error
>  thrown:
> 
My last laptop was an AMD Turion from Compaq (HP), two years of hell.
There is something about the AM2 generation from AMD and Linux,
especially with AMD chipsets.
> 
> “Kernel Panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn’t work! boot with
>  APIC=debug and send a report then try booting with the 'NOAPIC' 
> option.”
> 
> 
> 
> Now, am I able to boot the Live CD with NOAPIC? Or is this not 
> possible? I’m guessing this must be a hardware incompatibility of 
> some type?
> 
Yes and yes.  You need a newer kernel for these laptops to avoid this
error.  When the CD is booting, you should be able to get a grub menu
where you can edit the kernel line, this is where you want to put NOAPIC.

Having said that, not using the APIC is going to have serious
performance issues, in my experience it just does not "feel" right.  I
would  not put machines that need this hack into any kind of production
role.  Of course YMMV.

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