On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 03:30 -0600, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello Everyone
> The good news is that in my 10+ years using Linux, I am almost certain that
> I have never had a kernel that would not boot...
>
> Last night I ran "yum update" and it pulled in
> kernel-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64. When I attempted to boot it, the boot
> process seemed to complete, but X never started.
>
> Since I have never had this problem before, I don't know precisely what
> information that you need.
>
> I am running an NVidia video card, with the proprietary NVidia driver,
> installed from RPMFusion. After failing to boot
> kernel-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64, I can reboot and choose another kernel and
> it boots just fine.
>
> >From /var/log/messages, this is the closest that I can find to anything
> relevant:
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 102
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [03:00.0]
> fault addr 233038000
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 01] Present bit in
> root entry is clear
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 54, CMDre 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000001
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 202
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [03:00.0]
> fault addr 235833000
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 01] Present bit in
> root entry is clear
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 6, PE007e
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 302
> Mar 8 03:01:56 localhost kernel: NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 6, PE007e
>
> Again, I can boot fine from every other kernel. I just can't boot from
> 2.6.32.
>
> If all I need to do is try running without the proprietary NVidia driver,
> please let me know specifically how to disable that driver the easiest
> possible way. Translation: so that I can just boot back into an older
> kernel and continue using the proprietary NVidia driver if I decide to do
> that.
>
> Also, not only have I never had a problem with being able to boot a
> particular kernel, I have never had any problems with the proprietary
> NVidia driver.
>
> Let me know any additional information that you may need to help me with
> this issue.
>
> Steven P. Ulrick
I also had this issue, found a report that is you add
iommu=soft
to the kernel line in the menu.lst
EXAMPLE:
title Fedora (2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=a729b820-4928-4823-ba21-d4233410109c quiet vga=794 selinux=0 iommu=soft
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64.img
It worked for me.
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