Xen users - Dec 2005 - RE: "netdev watchdog" error and non-working sis900network card - solution

Yes, acpi=off seems to have decided my problem of instability. Soon, then I
will be returning the HD in the machine in production and I dispatched by
post the result.

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Leonardo Pinto
listas#openlogic dot com br

> The troubles went away when adding kernel options "noapic
> acpi=off" to
> the modules grub line.
>
> Both noapic and acpi=off make big difference to the machine
> setup - it would probably be a good idea to figure out which
> one makes the difference. If it''s acpi=off, a new BIOS that
> has more suitable things in the ACPI tables is probably the solution.
>
> If it''s the noapic that actually solves the problem, then
> that would be useful to know (but I''m not sure what the fix
> is, aside from the fact that it may actually be the PCI
> enumeration that goes wrong in the system - lspci -vvv may
> give some info.
>
> Yep, there''s been a couple of people recently saying that problems
have
> been fixed with acpi=off and noapic, and this really rather concerns me.
>
> I''d be very interested to see a diff of the output a native boot
vs a
> failing xen xen one.
>
> We need to get this fixed as I certainly wouldn''t want to run a
system
> with ''noapic''. The legacy pic support in xen is really
only in their so
> that people can run on emulators like vmware or qemu.
>
> Ian

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