AMD64: crash on boot with smp kernel (on Linux certified system)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 07:12:15PM +0200, Friedrich Schiller wrote:

>      as a cross check I just installed on my CELSIUS
> V810 machine
> the "pure" AMD64 Debian unstable as available from the
> alioth
> repository.
> 
> A bit to my surprise the amd64-k8-smp kernels there
> boot and
> work absolutely without problems!  More specifically,
> I checked:
> 
>   kernel-image-2.6.7-6-amd64-k8-smp
>   kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp
> 
> In contrast, on Ubuntu I used
> 
>   linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-amd64-k8-smp
> 
> This means that the boot bug is present in Ubuntu
> AMD64
> but apparently *not* in Debian AMD64!
> 
> >From the numbering scheme I would guess that the
> Debian version
> is newer, so perhaps an upgrade would fix this issue?

Please file a bug in bugzilla with this information, and also the panic text
as requested, if at all possible.

-- 
 - mdz