Debian Bug report logs - #515982
linux-image-2.6-486: Cannot boot on i486

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Package: linux-2.6; Maintainer for linux-2.6 is (unknown);

Reported by: Bas Wijnen <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:54:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 511703

Found in version 2.6.26-12

Fixed in versions linux-2.6/2.6.30-7, linux-2.6/2.6.31-1~experimental.1, linux-2.6/2.6.26-20

Done: dann frazier <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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I saw the text_poke_early crash too, on a Soekris net4501, which uses an 
AMD ElanSC520.  The problem may or may not apply to other 486-class 
hardware (some reports of the bug say it does).

The workaround is to specify noreplace-paravirt on the kernel command line.

If the bug does indeed affect all 486-class CPUs then it would be a good 
idea to compile CONFIG_PARAVIRT out of the -486 kernels entirely, at 
least until such time as the bug is fixed.

ttfn/rjk

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