On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:18:38PM -0700, Brandon Bennett wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor <ke...@koconnor.net> wrote: > >> Should a kernel fail during boot, I'd suspect it doesn't like one of > >> the apm/pcibios callbacks, or it doesn't like one of the > >> smbios/mptable/acpi tables. You could try compiling the SeaBIOS code > >> (see http://seabios.org/Download ) and increasing the debugging by > >> modifying src/config.h. Specifically, you could increase > >> CONFIG_DEBUG_LEVEL, and set DEBUG_HDL_pcibios32 and DEBUG_HDL_apm to > >> 1. Also, you could try disabling some of the features to see if that > >> prevents the fault (eg, disabling CONFIG_ACPI / CONFIG_SMBIOS / > >> CONFIG_MPTABLE). > > > > I have narrowed it down to SMBIOS. If I disable CONFIG_SMBIOS the > image boots up fine.
Gleb, have you seen this thread? Some of the recent changes to smbios that look like possible culprits are: Make SMBIOS table pass MS SVVP test Use MaxCountCPUs during building of per cpu tables. Add malloc_high/fseg() and rework bios table creation to use them. There were other changes, but the comments indicate they were only ports of changes already in bochs. I suppose it's also possible the lack of smbios is turning off some other feature in the guest (eg, acpi) that's the real culprit. -Kevin
