[Bug 76989] Re: MP-BIOS bug on Asus Pundit1 AH2 (Kernel panic)

[Izwalito]

I experienced the same problem on a new machine using ubuntu 6.10 DVD.
the noapic option got ubuntu DVD to run. I was able to install ubuntu on my hard drive;
first reboot got me the same error again, I then removed the quiet option to get the error msg reported below.

hardware is:

AMD Athlon X2 3800+ EE 65W (AM2)
ASUS Crosshair MotherBoard
CORSAIR TWIN2X2048-6400 - DDR2-800 - 2x 1GB
GIGABYTE GV-NX76T256D-RH  (GeForce 7600GT)
HD 160GB SATA2
PLEXTOR PX-716SA (SATA)
FORTRON 400W ATX FSP400-60GLN

Error msg is :

[17179573.104000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179573.108000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179573.112000] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[17179573.112000] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
[17179573.112000] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
[17179573.112000] ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(.
[17179573.276000] Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send report. Then try to boot with the 'noapic' option
[17179573.276000]   _

using the noapic seems to help so far

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MP-BIOS bug on Asus Pundit1 AH2 (Kernel panic)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76989