* Craig C Forney cforney@opus.com [040513 09:54]:
LinuxBIOS to boot properly. I had to make a few changes to the /etc/rc files (remove the keyboard startup), and I was able to get it to boot up completely into init state 3.
This stuff should probably be fixed in LinuxBIOS.
So, I'm still struggling with trying to load off of the Suse 9.0 Distribution DVD. I'd really like to be able to load a complete system from scratch using the serial port. It seems awfully close (the repair worked fine ... even the update sems to work).
Hm. I was successful installing SUSE 9 on an AMD64 system (Solo) using filo and I described some stuff here: http://www.openbios.org/linuxbioswiki/Filo_2bAMD64
One thing that might be worth trying is to disable the nmi watchdog and machine check exceptions via linux kernel boot parameters, ie with nmi_watchdog=0 nomce and probably acpi=off
Not respondin<4>NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0,
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CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004 Bank 4: b200000000070f0f Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
Stefan