2011/2/1 Daniel Chen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seven.steps@gmail.com">seven.steps@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div class="im">2011/2/1 Frank J. Gómez <<a href="mailto:frank@crop-circle.net">frank@crop-circle.net</a>>:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Call Trace:<br>
> <IRQ> [<some address>] panic+0x90/0x111<br>
> [<some address>] oops_end+0xea/0xf0<br>
> [<some address>] die+05b/0x90<br>
> [<some address>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xc0<br>
> [<some address>] do_general_protection+0x162/0x170<br>
> [<some address>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xc0<br>
> [<some address>] ? hrtimer_forward+0x1e/0xc0<br>
> [<some address>] tick_sched_timer+0x82/0xc0<br>
> [<some address>] __run_hrtimer+0x8f/0x1b0<br>
> [<some address>] ? update_wall_time+0x295/0x450<br>
> [<some address>] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x20<br>
> [<some address>] hrtimer__interrupt+0xd6/0x220<br>
> [<some address>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x9b<br>
> [<some address>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20<br>
> <EOI> [<some address>] ? native_safe_halt+0xb/0x10<br>
> [<some address>] default_idle+0x3d/0x90<br>
> [<some address>] cpu_idle+0xb3/0x110<br>
> [<some address>] rest_init+0x8a/0x90<br>
> [<some address>] start_kernel+0x387/0x390<br>
> [<some address>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x12c/0x130<br>
> [<some address>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109<br>
> So you think this is a non-hard-drive, non-ram hardware failure?  Any idea<br>
> how I'd determine what I need to replace?  The four hard drives are on two<br>
> array controllers, and both arrays seem to come up fine before the CD is<br>
> read.<br>
<br>
</div></div>None of those functions touch IO for your storage, so I wouldn't think<br>
they're putting a finger on your storage. It's possible you need a<br>
kernel parameter, but you'll need to provide more information using<br>
the ubuntu-bug command for a bug report.<br>
<br>
-Dan<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Even going all the way back to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">a 9.04 AMD64 Live CD (the oldest one I have laying around), I can't get to any kind of command prompt where I could issue such a command.  Am I missing something?  I can't boot off the hard drive, I can't boot off any of my CDs (Ubuntu or otherwise), and pressing the Shift key to get into Grub doesn't work.</span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Thanks again,</span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">-Frank</span></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">