On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:03:42 -0400,
knerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeff Knerr) wrote:
> Hello. I'm trying to get a 2.6 kernel to work with kdb, but I keep
> getting the above error on the BIOS splash screen, and then the
> machine's ethernet interfaces don't come up.
>
> Here are the symptoms and some of the things I've tried:
>
> - first boot with 2.6.8 and kdb works (no error msg), but subsequent
> reboots give the IRQ error
> - if I use a kdb-patched 2.6 kernel, but without selecting the kdb
> option in "make xconfig", it seems to work fine (multiple reboots)
> - machine also works fine with plain 2.6.8 kernel (no kdb patches
> applied)
> - I've tried 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 kernels with same problem (I'm happy to
> try 2.6.14, if you think it will help)
> - we've successfully used kdb with 2.4 kernels on this machine
> - I searched google and this list's archives, but didn't see
> anything obvious
This is a new one on me. I cannot see how kdb could be doing this, the
kdb patch does not touch the bios nor the IRQ routing.
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