[Voyage-linux] Fwd: Voyage current fails to boot PXE

Jerry Chapman (spam-protected)
Thu Dec 6 01:23:08 HKT 2012


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Christian H. <chrrrr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> As I am new to the whole mailinglist thing I accidentally sent my response
> directly to Punky.
> You can find it below.
>
> I used the time to test a little bit more - the result is the following:
>
> i am unable to install on of the following versions due to the hang at
> "switching to clocksource tsc":
> - 0.8.5 (without "ethdevice=eth0" and also with "ethdevice=eth0" added to
> pxelinux.cfg/default)
> - 0.9-rc1 (even with "ethdevice=eth0" added to pxelinux.cfg/default)
> - current
>
> Another thing that got my attention was that there is an error booting up
> the live cd of *current: something like "fast TSC calibration failed".
> But I don't know if is related.
>
>
Hi Christian,

I'm not sure if this will help you, but I found this in a quick Google
search.  Perhaps the clocksource is configured incorrectly for your
motherboard?

http://superuser.com/questions/378947/linux-kernel-hangs-at-switching-to-clocksource-tsc-on-pentium-4

I hope that helps you.

Jerry
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