[intrepid alpha 6] LILO causes2.6.27-3 kernel to hang on first boot after install

[Karn Kallio]

When installing Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 amd64 alternate, any configuration that uses LILO as boot loader leads to a kernel hang when booting from the hard drive. However, when GRUB is used as the boot loader, the install boots from the hard drive correctly.

This problem was discovered trying to install /boot on LVM, which causes the installer to use LILO.

Hardware:
cpu Intel Q6600
motherboard Intel dp35dp

When booting with LILO, the kernel hangs with the following message:

PANIC : early exception rip 10:ffffffff8022d581 error 0 cr2 ffffffffff5fc0f0

Some investigation suggests that this is related to this known problem:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-09/msg02196.html

[Eemeli Kantola (eemeli-kantola)]

Something similar happens on MacBook core2duo 2GHz and kernel 2.6.27-4. In this case the error message reads:

PANIC : early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff8022d581 error 0 cr2 ffffffffff5fc0f0

The bad thing is that GRUB doesn't seem to work either, the machine just reboots after the "GRUB stage 1.5" message. So 2.6.27-4 is rendered completely unusable.

[jscc88 (jscc88-deactivatedaccount)]

this version of kernel is not good, you can download the more estable version in www.kernel.org

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

The user Juan Sebastian Cobaleda Cano is a troll, or something. We, in the Ubuntu-Co Team are cheking all his changes in Launchpad. Sorry for the problems.

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi Karn,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 274972

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lilo - 1:23.2-1

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lilo (1:23.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Joachim Wiedorn ]
  * New upstream release:
    - Fix for larger kernel setup code. (Closes: #625266)
    - Update of manpages (mkrescue.8, lilo.conf.5).
  * Update of some patches; remove of some patches (now in upstream).
  * debconf scripts:
    - Update of French translation (fr.po). (Closes: #621845)
    - Update of Portuguese translation (pt.po). (Closes: #622642)
    - Update of Russian translation (ru.po). (Closes: #623794)
    - Update of Japanese translation (ja.po). (Closes: #624629)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump to Standards-Version 3.9.2 (without changes).
    - Remove mbr dependency for package lilo (no more needed).
    - Replace perl-modules dependency with variable ${perl:Depends}.

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * Added DMUA flag.

lilo (1:23.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Joachim Wiedorn ]
  * debian/control:
    - Remove dependency to lilo in package lilo-doc. (Closes: #613753)
  * Fix: save errno for second command (device.c).
  * Fix: save file permissions for converted lilo.conf (Closes: #615103)
      and fix some typos in script lilo-uuid-diskid.
  * Fix: missleading error message in geometry.c. (Closes: #445264)
  * Reformatting of mkrescue manpage (thanks to M.E. Schauer).
      (Closes: #617282)
  * debconf scripts:
    - Fix typos in some debconf translation files. (Closes: #504733)
    - Use better style in debconf translations. (Closes: #312451, #504733)
    - Remove debconf code for managing old boot/boot.b and similar files.
    - Remove no more needed debian/lilo.lintian-overrides file.
    - Remove script liloconfig and all appropriate debconf code.
    - Update of German translation (de.po).
    - Update of French translation (fr.po). (Closes: #615936)
    - Update of Russian translation (ru.po). (Closes: #616691)
    - Update of Galician translation (gl.po).
    - Update of Danish translation (da.po). (Closes: #618004)
    - Update of Basque translation (eu.po). (Closes: #618253)
    - Update of Czech translation (cs.po). (Closes: #618711)
    - Update of Spanish translation (es.po). (Closes: #618813)
    - Update of Finnish translation (fi.po). (Closes: #618886)
    - Update of Italian translation (it.po). (Closes: #618801)
    - Update of Brazilian Portuguese translation. (Closes: #618738)
    - Update of Swedish translation (sv.po). (Closes: #618620)
  * Add new script liloconfig, using template with comments,
      works with UUID, LABEL and disk-id for root and boot options.
  * Add new manpage for liloconfig, update of other manpages.
  * Fix typos and phrases in manpage of lilo.conf. (Closes: #258472)

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * Added Depends on perl-modules, since liloconfig needs it.

lilo (1:23.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #339778)
  * Upstream bugfixes:
    - Option 'append' works with acpi=off. (Closes: #428390)
    - Working on degraded RAID-1 device. (Closes: #278373, #522283)
    - Working with MD v1.0 RAID-1 boot devices. (Closes: #598035)
    - Working with spaces in labels. (Closes: #287257)
    - Using new hook scripts for kernel and initrd only one...