Re: ACPI issues on HP DL585 G2

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Stephen Frost<sfrost <at> snowman.net> wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu (yhlu.kernel <at> gmail.com) wrote:
>> are you sure these two come from same BIOS ?
>
> They might not..  I did upgrade the BIOS to the latest revision and I
> don't recall if the last 2.6.22 boot was before or after the BIOS
> upgrade.  The 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 boots (both w/o APIC) are from the same
> BIOS.  Would it help to try booting under 2.6.22 with the BIOS that's on
> there now?

that would help

>
> Is there some other information I could provide while the machine is
> running?  Unfortunately, this is a rather important box for us.

put debug in /boot/grub/grub.conf for the kernel
and boot with serial console enabled...
to capture all.

YH